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  1. Berlin's "Museum of East Asian Art" and "Museum of Indian Art" to be united in future to form a "Museum of Asian Art" (05.12.2006)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation yesterday approved the merger of the Museums of East Asian Art and Indian Art. In future, they will be run as departments of the new "Museum of Asian Art". Their unification will strengthen the importance of both collections through

  2. Refugees as guides on Berlin's Museum Island Staatliche Museen zu Berlin der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Deutsches Historisches Museum launch "Multaka: Treffpunkt Museum" pilot project (10.12.2015)

    A total of 19 refugees from Syria and Iraq are being trained as museum guides so that they can lead compatriots through the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the German Historical Museum in their native language. The title of the project is programmatic: "Multaka" means "meeting point" in Arabic

  3. German museums and exhibition centres once again very well attended in 2015 - Total number of visits to museums increased by 2.2 per cent year-on-year to 114,423,192 - A total of 9,025 special exhibitions in German museums (19.12.2016)

    The visitor figures for museums are published in the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition centres in the Federal Republic of Germany. This has been published annually since 1981 by the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin Prussian Cultural Heritage in co-op

  4. New appointments to the Board of Trustees: Alexis von Poser becomes Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin (04.07.2019)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, unanimously decided on Tuesday that Dr Alexis von Poser should take over the position of Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art. The Ethnologi

  5. Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin reports: Visitor numbers to museums in Germany remain at a high level in the pre-corona year 2019 (18.01.2021)

    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

  6. "Lepsius - the German expedition to the Nile" - A presentation by the National Museums in Berlin at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (30.10.2006)

    The Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, together with the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage in cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, are opening the exhibition "Lepsius - the German Expedition to the Nile" tomor

  7. Realisation competition for the State Museums' competence centre decided: Berlin museum courtyards take shape (21.02.2007)

    Architects Harris + Kurrle from Stuttgart have won the competition to realise the northern part of the Museumshöfe, an extension to the Museum Island in Berlin. Yesterday, a jury chaired by Prof. Arno Lederer decided in favour of the design, which is characterised by two overlapping, horizontally em

  8. Friends of the Museum Berggruen founded - plans to expand the museum (16.07.2007)

    The "Förderkreis Museum Berggruen Berlin e.V." was recently founded with the aim of further promoting and expanding the museum, which is part of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, through civic engagement. The founding members are Heinz Berggruen's heirs - his widow Bettina and his children

  9. New Director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and new Head of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin (18.12.2007)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Prof Dr Matthias Wemhoff as the new Director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and Dr Julien Chapuis as Director of the Sculpture Collection. Both decisions were unanimous. The two collecti

  10. The Neues Museum restored after more than 60 years - A jewel of the Museum Island regained (05.03.2009)

    Today, the renovated Neues Museum will be handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation at a symbolic key handover ceremony in the presence of the Federal Minister of Building Wolfgang Tiefensee, the Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit, the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and the P