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  1. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation receives the Innovation Award of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry for the Museum Island (17.11.2009)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, accepted the 2009 Innovation Award from Klaus Laepple, President of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry, at the Tourism Summit yesterday evening. The Foundation received the award for its highly publicised

  2. Special prize for the "Architekturpreis Berlin 2009" for the Neues Museum (03.11.2009)

    On 30 October 2009, David Chipperfield Architects and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation were awarded the special prize for the Berlin Architecture Prize 2009 for the restoration of the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foun

  3. 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

  4. Whereabouts of two faience vases in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts secured (27.10.2010)

    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

  5. Archaeology competence centre opposite Museum Island Berlin celebrates topping-out ceremony (22.09.2010)

    Today's topping-out ceremony for the new Archaeology Competence Centre in the presence of Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Jan Mücke, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Building Ministry, marks a further s

  6. Scientific research confirms art-scientific image analysis - A relief from the Egyptian Museum Berlin and the current DNA analysis of the mummy of Tutankhamun (17.02.2010)

    The results of the DNA analysis of Tutankhamun's mummy just published by Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, have a direct connection to the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin. One of the most famous exhibits is the relief "Walk in the Garden", c. 1330

  7. Ten years UNESCO World Heritage Site Museum Island Berlin (09.03.2010)

    Museum Island Berlin has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for ten years. On 10 March 2000, the then UNESCO Secretary-General Koïchiro Matsuura presented the certificate of inclusion of the Museum Island in the World Heritage List to the Governing Mayor of Berlin and the President of the Prussian Cu

  8. National presentation of the Europa Nostra Award 2010 to the Neues Museum and the Baerwaldbad (19.11.2010)

    The Neues Museum, Museum Island Berlin, was honoured today with the main prize of the "European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award" in the "Conservation" category during a ceremony at the Baerwaldbad (Berlin-Kreuzberg). Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Herit

  9. Museum Island Berlin: Celebration of 10 years UNESCO World Heritage Site and reopening of the Colonnade Courtyard (04.06.2010)

    On Sunday, 6 June 2010, the ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of the inscription of the Museum Island Berlin on the UNESCO World Heritage List will take place at 11 a.m. in the newly restored rotunda of the Altes Museum. This will be followed by the reopening of the restored Colonnade Courtyard

  10. Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18 - new admission regulations at the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (05.07.2010)

    From 1 October 2010, children and young people will have free admission to the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Musikinstrumenten-Museum) until the age of 18 - instead of the previous age of 16. This change was decided by the SPK Foundation Council l