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New director for the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library (08.12.2009)

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

New perspectives on inequalities in Latin America (15.01.2010)

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds research project of the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität and the Ibero-American Institute of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding a joint project of

New building takes shape - topping-out ceremony for the storage depot of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Friedrichshagen (28.01.2010)

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

Atlas returned to the Berlin State Library after being lost during the war (12.02.2010)

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

Scientific research confirms art-scientific image analysis - A relief from the Egyptian Museum Berlin and the current DNA analysis of the mummy of Tutankhamun (17.02.2010)

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

Ten years UNESCO World Heritage Site Museum Island Berlin (09.03.2010)

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

German Cultural Heritage on the Road to Europe - Conference on 4 and 5 October at the Berlin State Library (30.09.2010)

Europe's cultural and scientific heritage is preserved in numerous national cultural institutions. The EU has launched the "Europeana" project to facilitate access to this heritage. The internet portal www.europeana.eu links to around 12 million digital objects to date and is set to be significantly

Archaeology competence centre opposite Museum Island Berlin celebrates topping-out ceremony (22.09.2010)

Today's topping-out ceremony for the new Archaeology Competence Centre in the presence of Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Jan Mücke, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Building Ministry, marks a further s

Hermann Parzinger elected member of the British Academy (10.08.2010)

Hermann Parzinger, prehistorian, archaeologist and President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, was recently elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Hermann Parzinger says: "I am certain that my membership of the British Academy will further strengthen the profile of the

Second issue of the SPK magazine, which has won international awards, has been published (30.06.2010)

The SPK magazine, first published in autumn 2009, is now in its second issue. second issue. The current issue focusses on the topic "Future". The first magazine won prizes in two of the most important international competitions in the public relations and corporate communications sector. At the "Int

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