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Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a

Museums in Germany reported a total of 110,425,002 visits in 2013. This is the second-highest number of visits since the first complete survey began in 1981. Only in the previous year 2012 was the figure slightly higher (2.1 per cent). The 8,942 special exhibitions organised by German museums contri

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

The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" begins this Thursday at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. The two-day meeting of experts from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, Mexico, Greece and Germany is being organised by the Prussian Cu

Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser will become Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage on 1 June 2015. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foundation Board today. Weisser has been acting Director of the Coin Cabinet since the end of Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge

At its annual press conference today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its plans for the coming year. Together with the directors of the five institutions, Hermann Parzinger took stock of 2014 and provided information on new projects, developments and exhibitions.

The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin ended with an impressive concert on Sunday. The first prize winners of this year's competition in viola, trumpet and clarinet played accompanied by the symphony orchestra of the Orchesterzentrum NRW under the direction of Garry Walker.

The 49th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook, which looks back on 2013, was published at the turn of the year. Numerous articles illustrate the range of topics that concern the foundation. Particularly interesting on the occasion of the current developments surrounding the Kulturforum:

For the second 'Notturno' chamber concert of the season, an eight-piece ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will embark on an interdisciplinary search for clues in the Neues Museum on 16 January. Since its reopening in 2009, the building on Museum Island has housed important exhib

The winners of the 2015 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will be presented to the public in three festive concerts at the University of the Arts in mid-January From 14 to 16 January, the best students at German music academies in the fields of viola, trumpet, clarinet and vocal ens