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  1. Annual press conference 2012 (07.02.2012)

    On 7 February 2012, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2011 was give

  2. Two boxes from Leipzig - objects lost since the Second World War return to Berlin (06.02.2012)

    Forty-four objects of late antique Byzantine everyday culture were recently identified in Leipzig as belonging to the Berlin Museum of Byzantine Art and are now returning to the Bode Museum. The pieces had been transported to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War and were mistakenly

  3. Private sponsor supports the Museum of Islamic Art's digitisation project as part of the planned "Islamic Art Online" portal (30.01.2012)

    The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the art patron Yousef Jameel recently signed a contract to finance the digitisation, cataloguing and virtual preparation of large parts of the Museum of Islamic Art's collection. The generous funding from Yousef Jameel w

  4. Purchase of two watercolours by Wilhelm Lehmbruck - both works previously restituted to the heiress of the former owner Paul Westheim (27.01.2012)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently transferred ownership of the two watercolours "Susanna" (1914) and "Mother and Child" (1918) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) to the heiress of the art critic and collector Paul Westheim, Dr Margit Frenk. The works were purchased by the Prussian Cul

  5. This year's winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation have been announced (14.01.2012)

    Students from Berlin and Freiburg have won this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The prizewinners' concert will take place on Sunday at the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt. This year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize for violin wa

  6. Experts from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation involved in uncovering forgeries in the Jägers Collection case. The significance of scientific analyses by the Rathgen Research Laboratory of the National Museums in Berlin (10.01.2012)

    In the trial concerning Jäger's alleged art collection, which led to a legally binding judgement at the end of December 2011, the results of the extensive scientific investigations carried out by the Rathgen research laboratory helped to substantiate the suspicion of art forgery and, in particular,

  7. International conference (20.12.2011)

    Scientists discussed "The future of the humanities in a multipolar world" on the Museum Island. How is the future of the humanities shaping up in our multipolar world? What role do the humanities play in a 21st century society characterised by cultural and social change and how do they see their new

  8. Hermann Parzinger elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences (06.01.2012)

    At the end of December 2011, the Presidium of the Leopoldina elected Hermann Parzinger, the archaeologist, prehistorian and President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, as a new member of the Academy on the recommendation of the Academy members. He is a member of the Cultural Studies Sect

  9. Even higher visitor figures for German museums. Over 109 million museum visits in 2010 (14.12.2011)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 109,196,469 museum visits in 2010. This represents an increase of 2.2 per cent compared to 2009, and is the highest number of visits since the survey of visitor numbers began in 1981. The results are part of the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibit

  10. Joachim Jäger appointed Deputy Director of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin. Andreas Richter becomes the new Head of the Collection Development Department of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage (12.12.2011)

    At its meeting on 9 December 2011, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Joachim Jäger as the new Deputy Director of the Nationalgalerie and Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Jäger, born in Munich in 1963, hol