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  1. Federal government funds Arab-German research cooperation with an additional 3.3 million euros (13.11.2018)

    Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with a

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Deutsche Welle finalise media partnership (21.12.2006)

    Deutsche Welle and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation have agreed to work more closely together as partners in the future. All three pillars of Deutsche Welle - DW-TV, DW-WORLD and DW-RADIO - will be increasingly focussing on outstanding events in the context of current affairs reporting, par

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over brick fragment from the 3rd millennium BC to Iraq (28.04.2015)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a brick fragment from the 3rd millennium BC to Iraq. A private individual sent the valuable piece by post to the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in March 2015 and gave it to the museum as a gift for further safek

  4. New research alliance for the preservation of cultural heritage (28.10.2008)

    The Presidents of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Leibniz Association and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding today at the Altes Museum (Museum Island Berlin) to establish the "Cultural Heritage Research Alliance". The aim is to significantly improve

  5. Nationalgalerie receives objects from the Schinkel estate back (28.11.2006)

    Some of the personal belongings of the architect and painter Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), which went missing during the turmoil of the Second World War, were returned to the Nationalgalerie Berlin yesterday. The handover took place in San Francisco. The father of the previous owner, who has

  6. SPK intensifies cooperation with Colombia (30.10.2024)

    Kogi ritual artefacts to be united in Colombia - SPK Ethnological Museum intensifies cooperation with indigenous community and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History The Ethnological Museum of the SPK is intensifying its collaboration with the Colombian ICANH (Instituto Colombiano de An

  7. SPK, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Nationalgalerie mourn the loss of Heiner Pietzsch (08.09.2021)

    Collector and patron Heiner Pietzsch has died at the age of 91 - Parzinger: A great friend of the Nationalgalerie and pioneer of the museum for the 20th century Heiner Pietzsch, the well-known Berlin entrepreneur and great patron of the arts, is dead. He died on Tuesday evening in a Berlin clinic at

  8. Announcement of the Ernst Waldschmidt Prize (18.07.2008)

    The Ernst Waldschmidt Prize has been awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 1988 for scientifically valuable achievements in the field of Indology, particularly in Waldschmidt's areas of specialisation (Buddhism, Indian and Central Asian archae

  9. Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof extended until 2021 (16.05.2011)

    The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, which has been on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart since September 2004, will continue to be presented there in the coming years. The current loan relationship, which was agreed for seven years and would have ended in autumn 2011, will

  10. "Art, looting, restitution - forgotten life stories": SPK and SKD cooperate for educational project on Nazi art looting (10.06.2025)

    "Art, looting and restitution" continues with a new focus - Forgotten Jewish life stories as a starting point for democracy education in museums - Funding from the Federal Ministry of Youth in the "Live Democracy!" programme and from the Friede Springer Foundation - Focus on the fight against anti-S