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The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today unanimously appointed Professor Dr Markus Hilgert, born in 1969, as the new Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East at the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. He succeeds Professor Dr Beate Salje, w

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is a new member of the American Philosophical Society. Founded in 1743, the American Philosophical Society promotes research in numerous disciplines in the humanities and natural sciences. Hermann Parzinger says: "As a non-Am

As part of his visit to Berlin to mark the end of the cross year Russia Year in Germany / Germany Year in Russia, the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey E. Naryshkin, in his capacity as Chairman of the Russian Historical Society, visited the President of the Prussian Cultura

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned two works from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin to the two grandsons of the art dealer Kurt Walter Bachstitz. The objects in question are a writing tablet and a bronze mortar from the Renaissance period. The obje

The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Director General of the National Museums in Berlin see a new building at the Kulturforum as a significant and realisable step towards the further development of Berlin's museum landscape. This will create the urgently needed presenta

The Board of Trustees discussed the entire building programme of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in detail today. Financing and prioritisation were also discussed. As a result, it should be noted: The Board of Trustees expressly supports the projects included in the Foundation's catalogue

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has acquired Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries. Written partly in German and partly in French during his great voyage of discovery through Central and South America between 1799 and 1804, these unique and internationally highly significant his

Today in New York, a three-thousand-year-old gold tablet from Assur, which had been lost by the Museum of the Ancient Near East in the turmoil at the end of the war, was returned to the museum. The handover took place in Nassau County Surrogate's Court, presided over by Judge Edward W. McCarty. The

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 2014. As every year, the annual press conference focussed on the Foundation's

With today's ceremony, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the arrival of Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries at the Berlin State Library in the presence of Klaus Wowereit, Governing Mayor of Berlin, Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture, and Johanna Wanka,