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Historical plaster casts from the University of Jena came into the care of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in 1983. After around forty years, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned the collection to its place of origin. The collection of almost 400 plaster casts of ancient sc

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted 13 volumes from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG Vienna). The volumes in question were published between 1840 and 1914. Four volumes were formerly owned by the Jewish Community, the other ni

The Berlin Egyptologist and Orientalist Prof Dr Verena Lepper has received one of the most important awards in the world of research, the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She now has access to funding for her research project "Localising 4000 Years of Cultural History. Te

"Shared Knowledge" project analyses around 3,000 objects with guests from Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela - results on display in the new Berlin Palace Guests from Amazonia are currently researching 150 artefacts from the Rio Negro region in the Dahlem depots of the Ethnological Museum of the Nationa

Collector and patron Heiner Pietzsch has died at the age of 91 - Parzinger: A great friend of the Nationalgalerie and pioneer of the museum for the 20th century Heiner Pietzsch, the well-known Berlin entrepreneur and great patron of the arts, is dead. He died on Tuesday evening in a Berlin clinic at

Not much is known about the Benedictine monk Ranulf Higden (c. 1280–1364) from Chester. Yet he was one of the most famous English scholars of the late Middle Ages and the author of an extensive world chronicle. Now, two researchers at the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage have made a

“Where do I actually come from? And what did my ancestors get up to?” Questions like these are likely to cross everyone’s mind at some point in their lives. For some, the thirst for knowledge is so great that they scour online databases, send saliva samples to DNA testing laboratories and get in tou

Internal audit The Internal Audit is an independent unit reporting to the Chair of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) and carries out audit and advisory tasks on behalf of the Foundation’s management. Its audits cover all facilities and organisational units. It supports the Prussian Cultura

The press images in this list can no longer be downloaded. If you are interested in using an image, please send an e-mail to the press office . News "Handing over the keys to the Friedrichshagen storage facility" (18/06/2014) Press release "Handing over the keys to the Friedrichshagen storage facili

The press images in this list can no longer be downloaded. If you are interested in using an image, please send an e-mail to the press office . Press release "Dr des. Andrea Schlosser receives Ernst Waldschmidt Prize of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation / Award for excellent academic achieve