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  1. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz cooperates with Polish National Library in preserving and digitising collections (21.06.2011)

    The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Biblioteka Narodowa - Polish National Library will cooperate in the future in the areas of processing and preserving the common cultural heritage and digitising their library collections. Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of t

  2. 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,

  3. David Chipperfield Architects commissioned with the refurbishment of the New National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin (29.03.2012)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recently commissioned the office of British architect David Chipperfield to plan the complete refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum. The famous building by Mies van der Rohe needs to be extensively renovated, from the façade to the

  4. An Italian Madonna portrait that had been missing since the end of the war returned to the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin yesterday (09.02.2012)

    The Renaissance painting "Mary with the Child" was consigned to Sotheby's New York for appraisal and identified by the auction house as an old collection of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. The owner, the American Bryan Horney, immediately agreed to return the painting to the Gemäldegalerie. He himself ha

  5. 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

  6. Feasibility study commissioned to optimise Berlin's museum landscape (11.09.2012)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger, the Director General Michael Eissenhauer and the 15 museum directors of the SMB, in particular the collection directors concerned, Udo Kittelmann and Bernd Lindemann, have decided on the further course of action regarding

  7. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation donates painting believed lost to Berlin Cathedral (14.07.2011)

    A few days ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) returned the painting "Nazareth - the Youth of Jesus" by Albert Hertel to the Berlin Cathedral as the previous owner. The work had been in the care of the Alte Nationalgalerie since the end of the war in 1945. It is listed as a work by

  8. Topping-out ceremony for the extension and remodelling of the Berggruen Museum of the Berlin National Gallery (20.09.2011)

    Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the extension and remodelling of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In summer 2012, this home of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin will be reopened with around one thousand s

  9. Long-lost gold tablet returns to the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the National Museums in Berlin (04.12.2013)

    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

  10. Lost ivory jug back in the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts (14.03.2013)

    A precious ivory jug from the early 18th century has been returned to the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The object had not returned from its storage location in Berlin after the Second World War and was long considered lost. The Prague Museum of Decorative Arts, which had acqui