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The prestigious "Europa Nostra Award", which recognises outstanding achievements in the field of restoration, research and education, will be presented to the Neues Museum this year. The building on Berlin's Museum Island has been restored according to plans by David Chipperfield Architects and Juli

The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island has been awarded the "European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture/Mies van der Rohe Award 2011". This was announced yesterday by the European Commission. It was selected from 343 applicants from 33 European countries. The prize will be awarded on 20

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), chaired by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, unanimously elected Dr Christina Haak as the new Deputy Director General of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. She will im

In the trial concerning Jäger's alleged art collection, which led to a legally binding judgement at the end of December 2011, the results of the extensive scientific investigations carried out by the Rathgen research laboratory helped to substantiate the suspicion of art forgery and, in particular,

The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the art patron Yousef Jameel recently signed a contract to finance the digitisation, cataloguing and virtual preparation of large parts of the Museum of Islamic Art's collection. The generous funding from Yousef Jameel w

Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the extension and remodelling of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In summer 2012, this home of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin will be reopened with around one thousand s

At its meeting on 9 December 2011, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Joachim Jäger as the new Deputy Director of the Nationalgalerie and Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Jäger, born in Munich in 1963, hol

The Forum Transregionale Studien introduces itself: Humanities and Social Sciences under Global Conditions Press invitation: 10 October 2011, 7:00 p.m., Kick-off event Forum Transregionale Studien, Rotunda Altes Museum, Berlin On 10 October 2011 at 7 p.m., the Forum Transregional Studies will be pre

Today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Elisabeth Tietmeyer as the new Director of the Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. She has already been Deputy Director of this museum since Octo

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recently commissioned the office of British architect David Chipperfield to plan the complete refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum. The famous building by Mies van der Rohe needs to be extensively renovated, from the façade to the