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  1. Handing over the keys to the Friedrichshagen storage facility of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (30.06.2014)

    Today the keys were handed over for the first building at the SPK's new storage location, the Friedrichshagen storage magazine. In attendance were Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Günter Winands, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner fo

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns archives to the Diksmuide City Archives (Belgium) (06.06.2014)

    On Monday, 9 June 2014, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, will hand over 17 archive boxes containing valuable late medieval and early modern documents to the Diksmuide City Archives. The archival documents were discovered during a re-cataloguing of the docume

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation continues cooperation with Georgian partners / Ceremony at the Bode Museum (28.05.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has maintained close relations with Georgia for many years. A highlight of the cooperation to date was the EU Twinning project carried out with the Georgian National Museum between 2010 and 2012. Over the next few years, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will b

  4. New Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage published (16.05.2014)

    The recently published, comprehensive 48th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on 2012, the year in which both the new General Reading Room of the State Library in the Unter den Linden building and the Archaeological Centre were completed. Also documented are the openings of

  5. No dissent between Parzinger and Grütters (12.05.2014)

    On misleading reports about an alleged disagreement between Hermann Parzinger and Monika Grütters The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, emphasises that "there is no disagreement between the Minister of State and myself on the question of a necessary extension

  6. Kokoschka "Pariser Platz in Berlin": Joint press release by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (29.04.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe are working together to clarify the provenance of Oskar Kokoschka's painting "Pariser Platz in Berlin". The Commission represents the family of Anna Caspari, a respected art dealer in Munich, who was deported from

  7. Hermann Parzinger elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (25.04.2014)

    Following his election to the American Philosophical Society last year, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is now also a member (Foreign Honorary Member) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy is one of the oldest learned so

  8. Media worlds - knowledge, information and communication in the digital revolution (27.08.2014)

    As part of the event "Mediale Welten - Wissen, Information und Kommunikation im digitalen Umbruch", experts will discuss the consequences and development potential of digital communication technologies and the associated future changes to the world of work in the fields of science and research on 1

  9. On the death of Otto Piene (18.07.2014)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the death of the Zero artist: "Otto Piene epitomises the great spirit of optimism of the 1960s. With his works, he pushed forward into completely new dimensions of art. His installation in the Neue Nationalgalerie

  10. New scanning technology CultLab3D: How museum pieces can be digitised on the assembly line (05.11.2014)

    It's a revolution in museums: with the CultLab3D scanning line, collection artefacts can be captured in three dimensions and converted into authentic digital models in just a few minutes. While 3D reproduction techniques for museum treasures were previously expensive and, above all, time-consuming,