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  1. Foundation stone laid for the James-Simon-Galerie on Museum Island Berlin (18.10.2013)

    Today, the foundation stone for the James-Simon-Galerie, the new entrance building on Museum Island, will be laid in the presence of Michael Odenwald, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, representing the Federal Government. Also present are Hermann P

  2. Hermann Parzinger on the subject of the Gemäldegalerie's move to the Museum Island (24.02.2014)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the statements made by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters on the subject of the Gemäldegalerie's relocation to Museum Island (interview, Berliner Morgenpost, 23 February 2014): "I welcome the fact that

  3. "Notturno" - Chamber concert on 10 January at Hamburger Bahnhof. DSO ensemble plays works from Vivaldi to Berio at the Museum für Gegenwart (02.01.2014)

    To kick off 2014, the chamber concert series "Notturno", which the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin has been organising in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 2010, invites you to the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin on 10 January. Like all of the se

  4. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents its basic approach to handling human remains in the collections of the National Museums in Berlin (31.03.2015)

    The archaeological and ethnological collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin also contain human remains. These include bones, some of which have entered the collection in processed form (e.g. in the case of ethnological artefacts such as bone flutes) and some in unprocessed form (e.g. archaeol

  5. Cultural contacts: "Notturno" chamber concert at the Museum of European Cultures (17.04.2015)

    The Anamyktos Quartet will perform the last "Notturno" chamber concert of the current season on 24 April at the Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Dahlem. With a programme of works by Russian composers, the musicians of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will enter into a d

  6. Parzinger on the reopening of the Museum of Decorative Arts: A place of inspiration for a creative city (20.11.2014)

    The Museum of Decorative Arts at the Kulturforum reopens this Friday after three years of remodelling. The collection of the oldest museum of its kind in Germany has been reorganised at a cost of 4.3 million euros and the foyer has been redesigned. The main attraction is a new fashion and design gal

  7. New scanning technology CultLab3D: How museum pieces can be digitised on the assembly line (05.11.2014)

    It's a revolution in museums: with the CultLab3D scanning line, collection artefacts can be captured in three dimensions and converted into authentic digital models in just a few minutes. While 3D reproduction techniques for museum treasures were previously expensive and, above all, time-consuming,

  8. Top researcher for Berlin's museum heritage: successful application for multi-million Humboldt Professorship (23.10.2014)

    Sharon Jeanette Macdonald has been nominated for Germany's most highly endowed research award: the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). The prize money amounts to five

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation continues cooperation with Georgian partners / Ceremony at the Bode Museum (28.05.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has maintained close relations with Georgia for many years. A highlight of the cooperation to date was the EU Twinning project carried out with the Georgian National Museum between 2010 and 2012. Over the next few years, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will b

  10. Triumph for Berlin scientist Verena Lepper: 1.5 million euros ERC Starting Grant for research on the Egyptian Museum's papyrus collection on the Nile island of Elephantine (30.12.2014)

    The Berlin Egyptologist and Orientalist Prof Dr Verena Lepper has received one of the most important awards in the world of research, the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She now has access to funding for her research project "Localising 4000 Years of Cultural History. Te