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  1. "Bronze Age - Europe without borders". Scientific significance of the exhibition with artefacts from the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History that were removed during the war (20.06.2013)

    From 21 June to 8 September 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will take place at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Its second stop will be at the State Historical Museum in Moscow from 15 October 2013 to 13 January 2014. The exhibition concept is the result of German-R

  2. Ceremonial event "Loss and Restitution" on 30 October 2008, speech by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and spokesman for the "German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (30.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German

  3. Statement on the Act of Vandalism on 3 October 2020 in Museums on the Museumsinsel Berlin (21.10.2020)

    On 3 October 2020, exhibits in four museums on the Museumsinsel Berlin were sprayed with an oily substance. Most of the affected objects are in the Neues Museum and Pergamonmuseum, along with a few objects in the exhibition building Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama and in the Alte Nationalgalerie. The a

  4. 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

  5. New in the Musikinstrumenten-Museum: Instrument expert Christian Breternitz (07.07.2020)

    Organs, wind instruments and iPads: Christian Breternitz's apprenticeship and years of travel in the fascinating and diverse world of musical instruments. The instrument expert is the new research associate at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. By Julia Spin

  6. 2019 visitor numbers for museums in Germany (18.01.2021)

    Figures reported to the Institut für Museumsforschung at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin amount to around 111.6 million visits during 2019. This corresponds to the high levels of previous years. Some 5,000 museums and 350 exhibition venues took part in the comprehensive statistical survey in 2019. T

  7. Institut für Museumsforschung (Institute for Museum Research)

    Institut für Museumsforschung (Institute for Museum Research) The institute is a research and documentation institute active throughout Germany on various museum issues. It represents the concerns of the Foundation and the German federal state governments within a European framework. The activities

  8. Charlottenburg

    Charlottenburg In the years when Germany was divided, Charlottenburg was the home primarily for the Foundation’s archaeological collections. Since 1996, with the addition of the Museum Berggruen, and later with the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, a museum district for High Modernist art was established

  9. So Why Is It Taking So Long?

    31.08.2017 So Why Is It Taking So Long? Article Hanna Strzoda, provenance researcher in a project examining acquisitions for the “Sammlung der Zeichnungen” made between 1933 and 1945, and Anna Pfäfflin, curator for 19th-century art in the Kupferstichkabinett, describe the typical problems they encou

  10. PREP: Building a Research Autobahn

    06.09.2017 PREP: Building a Research Autobahn Article In September, 21 German and American museum professionals will meet in Berlin to learn about issues of provenance research in both countries. Jane Milosch, Director of the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, explains how the German/Americ