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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

The "Haus Bastian" on Kupfergraben, built by David Chipperfield, will become the "Reinhold Würth Centre for Cultural Education and Mediation in Haus Bastian" of the National Museums in Berlin. A generous donation from entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth and an equally generous offer from the B

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

Public museums, libraries and archives in Germany can now submit applications to the Provenance Research Centre to support provenance research projects. Funding totalling one million euros is available annually from the budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media for this

A palace without an emperor, the flaming Buddha, a mysterious totem pole - stories like these will be told at the Humboldt Forum in future. This coming weekend, the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin will once again take visitors on a journey into the f

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled on fundamental legal questions regarding the jurisdiction of U.S. courts in the legal dispute over the Guelph Treasure. It overturned the decision of the lower courts, which had rejected the SPK's motion to dismiss, and referred the case back to the U.S. Distri

Long-standing Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation dies at the age of 75 - Parzinger: A veteran of the SPK The former Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Norbert Zimmermann, is dead. He died last week in Berlin at the age of 75. Zimmermann served the f

Court finds: Action for surrender of Guelph treasure inadmissible - case does not belong before US courts Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., ruled in favour of the SPK's motion to dismiss the claim for the return of the Guelph Treasure. The lawsuit w

String quartets from three centuries combined with an exclusive guided tour As part of its chamber concert series 'Notturno', which the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin has been organising in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 2010, the DSO invites you to the Pergam

The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" ended on Friday in Berlin with an urgent appeal to curb illegal excavations and the associated systematic destruction of cultural treasures from human history worldwide. Speakers from all over the world