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Two important faience vases from the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were recently identified as former Jewish property. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the heirs that the vases can remain in the Museum of Decorative Arts, where they have

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

Joint return of three books from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) to the heirs of Hedwig Hesse Both the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the SLUB Dresden recently found copies with the book

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has agreed with the heirs of the artist Hans Purrmann on the restitution of a work from the National Museums' Picture Gallery. Purrmann had sold the fragment of a painting by Hans Baldung Grien in 1937 due to his difficult situation as a "degenerate" artist.

The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2020 ended yesterday evening with a spectacular finale. This year, the competition was held in the fields of singing and string quartet. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin played under the direction of Julien Salemkour. This year's prizewinners are

Decision by the Board of Trustees: Claudia Zirra to head the new Department of Building and Technology at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation The 55-year-old graduate engineer and architect Claudia Zirra is an experienced and highly qualified specialist for the numerous complex construction an

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

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation signs contract with Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art / Parzinger thanks Minister of State for Culture, Federal Foreign Office, Ministry of Finance and Bundestag / Steinmeier: Dialogue with Iranian society / Grütters: Spectacular insights / Kruse: Enriching live

111.6 million visits to German museums in 2019 - trend towards special exhibitions unbroken Special exhibition trend unbroken - Special topic of the 2019 overall statistical survey: Collection holdings and handling collections The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,633,603 v

Donation contract signed - Axel Marx: Our family remains connected to the art city of Berlin - Hermann Parzinger: Overwhelming gesture from the family The family of the well-known Berlin collector Erich Marx, who died two years ago, has donated the entire holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys