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The kick-off meeting for the ILLICID research project took place today at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin with international participation. Over the next three years, ILLICID will use dark field research to gather information on the illegal trade in cultural artefacts in Germany.

Eleven works that belonged to Margarete Oppenheim's collection until 1936 were identified in the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Skulpturensammlung of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. A fair and equitable solution based on the Washington Principles was found for the works, which came to the museums via d

For the second time, a "Day in the Green" will take place on 3 September at Berlin's Kulturforum and celebrate the finale of the Cultural Summer Festival. Together with the St. Matthew Foundation, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Gemäldeg

Recently, Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of the Republic of Egypt, sent a letter to Prof Dr Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, requesting the return of the bust of Nefertiti. The letter is not signed by the Prime Minist

From 28 April to 3 June 2009, the Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus e.V. is showing an exhibition to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War with the German invasion of Poland. An exhibition organised by the House of Encounters with History (Dom Spotkán z. Historia),

Restitution of Nazi-looted property to descendants of the politically persecuted writer Eduard Fuchs - Chinese object from the Ethnological Museum handed over The SPK has today restituted a Chinese ridge turret figure from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin t

Ludger Derenthal and Katrin Peters-Klaphake from the Museum of Photography are responsible for managing Leni Riefenstahl’s photographic archive. Here, the researchers answer your questions:

Ludger Derenthal and Katrin Peters-Klaphake from the Museum of Photography are responsible for managing Leni Riefenstahl’s photographic archive. Here, the researchers answer your questions:

The World Heritage Site on Museum Island has a hidden history. This includes a garden laid out in the mid-18th century by the philosopher and art historian Johann Georg Sulzer, who turned it into a place for reflection on artistic beauty and a meeting place for the Berlin Enlightenment. A search for

The World Heritage Site on Museum Island has a hidden history. This includes a garden laid out in the mid-18th century by the philosopher and art historian Johann Georg Sulzer, who turned it into a place for reflection on artistic beauty and a meeting place for the Berlin Enlightenment. A search for