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Olaf Metzel (Munich) and Tobias Rehberger (Frankfurt am Main) have won the art-in-architecture competition for the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building. From tomorrow, all submitted designs will be on display in the Potsdamer Straße building. On 20 November 2009, the winners of the

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected 37-year-old Christoph Rauch as Head of the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library. The position has been vacant since the departure of Dr Hartmut-Ortwin Feistel at the end of June 20

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Sabine Thümmler as the future Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Dr Angela Schönberger, who is retiring at the end of February

Dr Klaas Ruitenbeek will succeed Prof. Dr Willibald Veit, who retired yesterday, as Director of the Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from the beginning of January 2010. Ruitenbeek, who was unanimously chosen by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

On Monday (11 January 2010), the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returned two books formerly owned by the Counts of Lynar to their heirs. The two volumes from the 17th century had come to the attention of the Berlin State Library during the processing of its holdings. Their provenance could be

Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the first construction phase of the Foundation's new storage depot in Berlin-Friedrichshagen in the presence of Rainer Bomba, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Construction and Ingeborg Berggreen-Me

A few days ago, the Berlin State Library received back an atlas from the 17th century that had recently been found in the archives of the French Foreign Ministry. The head of the archive, Jean Mendelson, presented the work to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzin

The results of the DNA analysis of Tutankhamun's mummy just published by Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, have a direct connection to the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin. One of the most famous exhibits is the relief "Walk in the Garden", c. 1330

Museum Island Berlin has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for ten years. On 10 March 2000, the then UNESCO Secretary-General Koïchiro Matsuura presented the certificate of inclusion of the Museum Island in the World Heritage List to the Governing Mayor of Berlin and the President of the Prussian Cu

Two important faience vases from the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were recently identified as former Jewish property. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the heirs that the vases can remain in the Museum of Decorative Arts, where they have