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As part of a digitisation project, the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin will make 6,000 texts available in an online database by autumn 2013. The project is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It offers ancient history scholars as well as the

The future Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace continues to take shape. Today, the Ralph Appelbaum / malsyteufel consortium was awarded the contract for the scenographic design of the exhibition areas in the Humboldt Forum: This means that work can begin on the presentation of the important collecti

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recently commissioned the office of British architect David Chipperfield to plan the complete refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum. The famous building by Mies van der Rohe needs to be extensively renovated, from the façade to the

The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) received a valuable collection of contemporary prints and a sculpture from the Mexican Embassy as a generous donation from the Mexican government. The portfolio entitled "Estampas, independencia y revolución" (Prints, Independence and Revolution) brings together a

A large-scale German-Russian research project on the loss of valuable works of art and cultural artefacts from Russian museums during the Second World War has been launched under the title "Russian Museums in the Second World War". The project partners are delighted to have received funding from the

The Renaissance painting "Mary with the Child" was consigned to Sotheby's New York for appraisal and identified by the auction house as an old collection of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. The owner, the American Bryan Horney, immediately agreed to return the painting to the Gemäldegalerie. He himself ha

On 7 February 2012, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2011 was give

Forty-four objects of late antique Byzantine everyday culture were recently identified in Leipzig as belonging to the Berlin Museum of Byzantine Art and are now returning to the Bode Museum. The pieces had been transported to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War and were mistakenly

Today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Elisabeth Tietmeyer as the new Director of the Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. She has already been Deputy Director of this museum since Octo

A new layout and completely revised content: The website www.museumsinsel-berlin.de provides information about the measures of the Museum Island Masterplan and brings the future of the Museum Island to life. The completely revised website www.museumsinsel-berlin.de is online in time for the opening