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A few days ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restituted a drawing by the Romantic artist Carl Philipp Fohr from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heirs of its former owner Karl Mayer. The provenance of the work had been clarified during research as part of the provenance research project o

During the ceremonial handover of the keys, Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Director General Michael Eissenhauer thanked Céline, Heiner and Aeneas Bastian for their extraordinarily generous gift. The building on Kupfergraben, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has been dedicated t

Portrait sketch was to be auctioned at Grisebach - After initial indications of its provenance from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the auction house contacted the SPK - Collector decided to return it The portrait of "Geheimer Oberregierungsrath Knerk" (ca. 1863/1865) is a study for the monumental

The Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball is designing a wall with a large-scale art installation in the Mesoamerica exhibition room of the Ethnological Museum in the Humboldt Forum. Inspired by indigenous pictorial documents, Mariana Castillo Deball has created a work consisting of numerous clay-f

A 360° film created in collaboration with the Museum of the Ancient Near East shows ancient Palmyra in a historically accurate digital reconstruction. The VR project was produced by ZDF/Terra X and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation The UNESCO World Heritage Site Palmyra gained sad notoriety

The eight surviving colossal figures from the workshop of the famous sculptor and architect Andreas Schlüter have returned to their original location on Schlossplatz. The sandstone figures, all on loan from the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, have been transported

The Marsilius Kolleg at Heidelberg University yesterday awarded the Marsilius Medal to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in recognition of his services to bringing together different academic cultures. Prior to this, the prehistorian held the Marsilius Lecture in the Old Aud

The programme of the five institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in 2019: Humboldt's 250th birthday, Bauhaus anniversary and 25 years of twinning with Buenos Aires - Exhibition programme with Mantegna and Bellini, Emil Nolde and African fashion - Plus: Shepard sounds at the State

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted five works from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the art dealer Heinrich Ueberall. The works had come to the museums in the course of a purchase by the Dresdner Bank in 1935. Heinrich Ueberall died in Sachsenha

Topping-out ceremony on the Museum Island Berlin Berlin. On 3 May, the topping-out ceremony for construction phase A of the basic refurbishment and extension of the Pergamon Museum was celebrated on Berlin's Museum Island. With the construction of a new staircase and the completion of the illuminate