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  1. German museums and exhibition centres remain very popular. Over 104 million museum visits in 2008 (03.11.2009)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 104,852,334 visits in 2008. Although this represents a decrease of 2.3% compared to 2007, it is still the second-highest number of visits since the survey began in 1981. These figures have now been published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National

  2. Announcement of the Ernst Waldschmidt Prize (18.07.2008)

    The Ernst Waldschmidt Prize has been awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 1988 for scientifically valuable achievements in the field of Indology, particularly in Waldschmidt's areas of specialisation (Buddhism, Indian and Central Asian archae

  3. Manuscript from the Berlin State Library returned to Tel Aviv (06.11.2008)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned a Hebrew manuscript from the Berlin State Library to the "Beit Ariella" library in Tel Aviv. It is a Talmud commentary written in 1793, which was stolen from the public library in Israel around ten years ago. Unaware of this fact, the State Li

  4. German-American Exchange Programme on Provenance Research: Apply now for 2019! And: Save the Date for Munich in October 2018 (03.07.2018)

    The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research will enter its third year after the upcoming autumn meeting in Munich. Interested parties can apply for 2019 until 28 September 2018. The "German-American Provenance Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP)" is intended to help expand the m

  5. Victoria of Calvatone from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, believed lost, rediscovered in St Petersburg (28.12.2016)

    The sculpture "Victoria of Calvatone" from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, which had been missing since the end of the war and was on display in the Altes Museum on Berlin's Museum Island until 1939, has resurfaced in Russia in the course of scientific research. This emerges from a r

  6. 20 years after the Washington Conference: SPK magazine dedicated to coming to terms with Nazi art theft (22.11.2018)

    Foundation restituted over 350 works of art and more than 2000 books - Magazine shows in reports, interviews and portraits how the provenance of objects is researched and how fair and equitable solutions are found Washington was a revolution". This is how US diplomat Stuart Eizenstat describes the c

  7. The photojournalistic work of Abisag Tüllmann online (07.10.2020)

    bpk picture agency launches new website on Abisag Tüllmann's photojournalistic work - 10,000 digital views of original prints, backsheets, contact sheets, colour slides and documents from 40 years To mark the 85th birthday of photographer Abisag Tüllmann (1935-1996), the bpk picture agency is launch

  8. 100 years of Bauhaus Dessau - an anniversary kick-off at the Neue Nationalgalerie from 13 to 15 June 2025 (19.05.2025)

    For one weekend, Mies van der Rohe's building will focus on the materiality of modernism under the motto "On the substance" Exactly one hundred years ago, the Staatliches Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau. In Anhalt, the "Silicon Valley of the 1920s", the school entered its most dynamic and fruitf

  9. "Art, looting, restitution - forgotten life stories": SPK and SKD cooperate for educational project on Nazi art looting (10.06.2025)

    "Art, looting and restitution" continues with a new focus - Forgotten Jewish life stories as a starting point for democracy education in museums - Funding from the Federal Ministry of Youth in the "Live Democracy!" programme and from the Friede Springer Foundation - Focus on the fight against anti-S

  10. Special prize for the "Architekturpreis Berlin 2009" for the Neues Museum (03.11.2009)

    On 30 October 2009, David Chipperfield Architects and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation were awarded the special prize for the Berlin Architecture Prize 2009 for the restoration of the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foun