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A total of 19 refugees from Syria and Iraq are being trained as museum guides so that they can lead compatriots through the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the German Historical Museum in their native language. The title of the project is programmatic: "Multaka" means "meeting point" in Arabic

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a historical Tric-Trac game to the Dresden State Art Collections. The piece was one of the artefacts that were relocated to the USSR during the war and returned to the GDR in 1958. At the time, it was mistakenly given to the East Berlin Mus

On 27 November, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will open the sixth season of their joint chamber concert series "Notturno" at the Museum of Decorative Arts. The delightful combination of a night-time concert with musicians from the DSO and a gu

The 50th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook has just been published, looking back on the year 2014. Internal and external authors address topics that concern the Foundation in numerous articles. In 2014, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie underwent a multi-year refurbishm

Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presented its plans for the coming year. The president and the directors of the five institutions presented new projects and announced outstanding exhibitions and events in 2016. As every year, the annual press conference focussed on the Foundation's

Yesterday evening, the winners of this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition were announced at a concert at the Berlin University of the Arts. The first prize winner in the vocal ensemble category in 2015, the Voktett Hannover, performed the impressive musical programme. This yea

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has drawn up an emergency red list for Iraq to alert law enforcement and customs authorities, as well as collectors and dealers worldwide, to illegally traded cultural artefacts from this country. Such red lists contain examples of object types and categor

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation looks back on a quarter of a century of its reunited collections. Between 1991 and 1992, the libraries, archives and museums brought together what had been divided for four and a half decades. To mark the anniversary, the SPK magazine tells the story of the

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a work from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heiress of art collector Dr Fritz Haussmann. However, the allegorical drawing of the 18th century architect Jean Baptiste Broebes will remain in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which acquired it f

The Royal Numismatic Society (London) has awarded Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge, former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin, its Medal of Honour. Andrew Burnett, President of the Royal Numismatic Society and former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the British Museum, presented the m