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During excavations in the historic centre of Berlin, archaeologists from the state of Berlin have found eleven sculptures that were confiscated from German museums in 1937 as part of the National Socialist "Degenerate Art" campaign. They are bronzes by Edwin Scharff, Otto Baum, Marg Moll, Gustav Hei

A major acquisition by the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung and the Free State of Bavaria, supported by the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Rudolf-August Oetker Stiftung f

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has maintained close relations with Georgia for many years. A highlight of the cooperation to date was the EU Twinning project carried out with the Georgian National Museum between 2010 and 2012. Over the next few years, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will b

Following an initial restitution in 2012, works from the collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (1879 - 1943) were recently identified again at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Prof Glaser, museum director and art collector, lost his position in 1933 due to his Jewish descent and emigrated. The

On the occasion of the International Meeting of Experts on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Syria, which is taking place from 2 to 4 June 2016 at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "If one day the guns fall s

Berlin. The first phase of the basic refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie, which included extensive dismantling of original building components, has been successfully completed. A central project phase has now been reached, which includes the extensive refurbishment of the reinforced concrete w

Basic refurbishment of the historic building complex in keeping with its listed status is complete Berlin. The keys to the Berlin State Library in the Unter den Linden building were handed over today at a ceremony attended by 300 invited guests. This marks the completion of the basic refurbishment a

111.6 million visits to German museums in 2019 - trend towards special exhibitions unbroken Special exhibition trend unbroken - Special topic of the 2019 overall statistical survey: Collection holdings and handling collections The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,633,603 v

Donald Trump wants to reinterpret American history by decree The President of the SPK, Hermann Parzinger , and his designated successor, Marion Ackermann , have sharply criticized the US President's announcement that he intends to influence museums in order to influence representations of American h

Today in New York, a three-thousand-year-old gold tablet from Assur, which had been lost by the Museum of the Ancient Near East in the turmoil at the end of the war, was returned to the museum. The handover took place in Nassau County Surrogate's Court, presided over by Judge Edward W. McCarty. The