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Museums, libraries and archives can now apply for funding for provenance research and investigation (14.07.2008)

Public museums, libraries and archives in Germany can now submit applications to the Provenance Research Centre to support provenance research projects. Funding totalling one million euros is available annually from the budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media for this

Ceremony marking the change in the office of Director General of the National Museums in Berlin. Speech by the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger (31.10.2008)

- The spoken word prevails - Salutations, When you, dear Mr Schuster, took up your post as Director General of the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich in 1998, you were asked whether the position of Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, which became vacant the following year,

Symposium on 11 and 12 December 2008 in Berlin. "Taking responsibility. Nazi-looted art - a challenge for museums, libraries and archives" (11.12.2008)

Introductory lecture by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: "Ways to more responsibility. Dealing with Nazi-looted art 10 years after Washington" - The spoken word prevails - The prehistory Since those dark days of National Socialist rule in our country, public

Over 150 masterpieces of traditional Japanese art from the Klaus F. Naumann Collection for the Berlin Museum of Asian Art: donation and purchase (02.04.2009)

The Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is today receiving the most important donation of traditional Japanese art in around a hundred years in a festive ceremony. Klaus F. Naumann, a native of Berlin who lives in Tokyo, is giving the museum more than one hundred works, including

New Museum honoured with the BDA Prize Berlin 2009 (12.10.2009)

On 9 October 2009, the BDA (Association of German Architects) Berlin Regional Association awarded the BDA Prize Berlin 2009 to the architectural firm David Chipperfield Architects and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as the client for the reconstruction of the Neues Museum on Museum Island

1500 masterpieces for the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art (10.06.2009)

Today, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is signing a contract at the Pergamonmuseum for an extensive permanent loan of the de Unger Collection. The collector Edmund de Unger is represented by his lawyer and his son Richard de Unger. Edmund de Unger's collect

British heir to the throne visits Berlin's Museum Island (30.04.2009)

Today, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, which, following its structural completion, is now being furnished and prepared for its opening on 16 October 2009. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio

Egyptian Museum in Berlin with new management (26.06.2009)

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Friederike Seyfried as the future Director of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Professor Dr Dietrich Wildung in July 2009, who

Visit by the Director of the Berlin Egyptian Museum in Cairo (21.12.2009)

The Director of the Egyptian Museum of the National Museums in Berlin, Friederike Seyfried, also met with Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Administration, last Sunday as part of her inaugural visit to her Egyptian colleagues in Cairo. In this context, Seyfried emphasises: "M

New director for the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts (08.12.2009)

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Sabine Thümmler as the future Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Dr Angela Schönberger, who is retiring at the end of February

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