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Church Slavonic print from the 17th century was identified by provenance researchers at the State Library as a war loss from the Novgorod Museum - Parzinger hands over the work to his Russian colleagues at today's festive event to mark "10 Years of German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (DRMD) and underlin

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

In mid-January 2016, the best hundred young talents will compete for the coveted awards and prize money totalling over 50,000 euros as part of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition. Günter Pichler, Tabea Zimmermann, Ewa Kupiec, Jiggs Whigham and Harald Eggebrecht are also members of

German museums and exhibition centres recorded a total of almost 118 million visits in 2014, almost 3 million more than in the previous year. These figures were published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin and the German Museums Association. They have been conduct