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As part of the activities of the Petersburg Dialogue, the conference "Building on World Heritage" took place on 27 and 28 November 2007 in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. It was chaired by Michael Piotrovski, Director of the Hermitage, and Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cult

The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, receives the 2011 Reuchlin Prize, which has been awarded every two years since 1955 for outstanding German-language achievements in the humanities. The Reuchlin Prize has been awarded every two years since 1955 by the cit

For the first time outside the Villa von der Heydt: at the 2017 annual press conference at the Altes Museum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presented its plans for the coming year. SPK President and the directors of the five institutions gave an outlook and took stock The Prussian Cultura

A few days ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restituted a drawing by the Romantic artist Carl Philipp Fohr from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heirs of its former owner Karl Mayer. The provenance of the work had been clarified during research as part of the provenance research project o

The federal government is funding a three-year research project on human remains from West Africa at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History The collections of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin include 477 human skulls that were brought to Germany from W

Not much is known about the Benedictine monk Ranulf Higden (c. 1280–1364) from Chester. Yet he was one of the most famous English scholars of the late Middle Ages and the author of an extensive world chronicle. Now, two researchers at the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage have made a

Not much is known about the Benedictine monk Ranulf Higden (c. 1280–1364) from Chester. Yet he was one of the most famous English scholars of the late Middle Ages and the author of an extensive world chronicle. Now, two researchers at the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage have made a

With the construction of the high colonnades, the new entrance building to the Museum Island is visibly taking shape. The topping-out wreath was hoisted over the shell at midday today (13 April 2016). In the presence of Federal Building Minister Barbara Hendricks, Minister of State for Culture Monik

From 11 - 13 April 2007, under the chairmanship of Mikhail Gorbachev and Dr. h.c. Lothar de Maizière, the German-Russian Steering Committee of the Petersburg Dialogue met in Kaliningrad (Königsberg). The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin and the Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg decided to

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe have good news to announce: A small-format Florentine Mannerist painting that went missing in the turmoil of the Second World War has today been handed over to the Berlin Gemäldegalerie by the London-based Commissi