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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

Recently, Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of the Republic of Egypt, sent a letter to Prof Dr Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, requesting the return of the bust of Nefertiti. The letter is not signed by the Prime Minist

On 4 September 2015, the odyssey of three manuscripts - two medieval and one modern - that once belonged to the library of Halberstadt Cathedral Grammar School ended with their return to the city of Halberstadt. The two medieval manuscripts were among the extensive holdings of books, newspapers, jou

15,000 visitors last Saturday on the Museum Island and at the Kulturforum The day of action "On the way to the Humboldt Forum", which the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin organised last Saturday on Museum Island and at the Kulturforum, was a complete success.

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, made four appointments yesterday: The Vice President of the SPK, the Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Head of the Usage Department of the State Library an

Every two months, the SPK aims to provide information on the diversity of its research projects: from basic research to provenance research, from material research to perception research - the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees supports the new format The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz

Former Vice President dies at the age of 89 - Parzinger: Pioneering and formative figure, especially in times of reunification The former Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Peter Hofmann, is dead. He died in Berlin at the end of August at the age of 89. Hofmann served the S

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a friendship album from the Reformation period with an entry by Philipp Melanchthon to the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt. In the Luther House in Wittenberg, where it was stolen in 1976, it will once again be part of the perma

The Guelph Treasure, the largest German church treasure owned by a public art collection, is preserved in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The Prussian state purchased it from a consortium of dealers in 1935. In January 2008, the heirs of these dealers, who were Jewish, asked the Prussian Cultu

The reconstruction of the Berlin Palace as the Humboldt Forum successfully passes an important milestone: on 29 May, the first major object from the National Museums in Berlin, the world's only airboat from Oceania, arrives on schedule in the exhibition hall on the first floor. Hans-Dieter Hegner, C