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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 long-standing President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation celebrates his 85th birthday this Sunday - Born in Braunschweig, he headed Germany's largest cultural institution in Berlin for over twenty years On the occasion of his 85th birthday this Sunday (31 January), the President of t

Parzinger: Digitisation of cultural heritage requires a new legal framework Together with other German archives, libraries and museums, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is campaigning for new copyright regulations for the digitisation of cultural heritage. In the so-called "Hamburg Note", t

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is of the opinion that the action for the return of the Guelph Treasure is unfounded and cannot be brought before a U.S. court. - English version: please find PDF below German text - In February of this year, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Treasure w

The Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin recently received ten historical photographs back. The vintage prints by photographer Ottomar Anschütz were previously considered a war loss. They have now turned up at auction. After the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation contacted the auction ho

With the construction of the high colonnades, the new entrance building to the Museum Island is visibly taking shape. The topping-out wreath was hoisted over the shell at midday today (13 April 2016). In the presence of Federal Building Minister Barbara Hendricks, Minister of State for Culture Monik

From 13 to 15 April 2016, the "Moving People" forum will show what foreign cultural and educational policy is currently achieving, what topics it is addressing and how it should be developed further. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is also taking part in the extensive programme. As part of

The ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum came to an end this Friday with the selection of ten winning designs. The teams of architects and landscape architects responsible for the award-winning designs have thus qualified to take part in the realisation compet

The second floor of the Humboldt Box now also provides a foretaste of the future presentation of Far Eastern art at the Humboldt Forum. The Schaudepot, the "Box in the Box", and new interactive applications for children and young people show examples of the new museum formats developed for the Humbo