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  1. Medal of Honour of the Royal Numismatic Society for former director of the Berlin Numismatic Collection (29.12.2015)

    The Royal Numismatic Society (London) has awarded Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge, former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin, its Medal of Honour. Andrew Burnett, President of the Royal Numismatic Society and former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the British Museum, presented the m

  2. Berlin: City of the Future - City of Knowledge Discussion event in the Year of Science 2015 - City of the Future (20.10.2015)

    With its numerous scientific and cultural institutions, Berlin sets the standard for new developments in the digital world. Modern information and communication technologies, embedded systems and the "Internet of Things" are opening up new opportunities for Berlin as a "city of the future". As part

  3. Dahlem and the Humboldt Forum: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and National Museums in Berlin publish the magazine "Sammlungswelten" (Worlds of Collections) (16.12.2016)

    Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz supports the magazine, which will be included in the next few days in the magazines "Cicero" and "Monopol" and in January also in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin are publishing a magaz

  4. Herzog & de Meuron build the new museum "Neue Nationalgalerie - Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts" at Berlin's Kulturforum (27.10.2016)

    Realisation competition successfully completed: Jury chaired by Arno Lederer awards a second and a third prize as well as four commendations in addition to the first prize for the Basel office - Grütters: Grandiose design - Parzinger: This design completely rethinks museum architecture and will make

  5. 42 finalists for the competition to realise the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum (16.06.2016)

    Competition documents to be sent out soon - Grütters: Design must be convincing in terms of urban planning and function - Parzinger: A lot of creativity and expertise for art - Submissions in mid-September The realisation competition for the planned Museum of the 20th Century of the National Gallery

  6. Five houses. Ten euros: UNESCO World Heritage Day on 5 June on Berlin's Museum Island (02.06.2016)

    Hermann Parzinger and Michael Eissenhauer invite Berliners and guests of the city to come and take a look! The UNESCO World Heritage Day will take place this Sunday, 5 June 2016, from 10 am to 6 pm on Museum Island Berlin. With a day ticket of ten euros (concessions: five euros), visitors can visit

  7. Hermann Parzinger on the joint project of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow "Donatello and Renaissance Sculpture" (19.05.2016)

    As part of the long-term cooperation between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, sculptures and fragments from the Italian Renaissance that were part of the Berlin sculpture collection before the war were identified in the Moscow museum in 2015. As a

  8. ZEDIKUM digitisation project on Berlin's Museum Island: archaeological objects in 3D (19.05.2016)

    The German Centre for Digital Cultural Assets in Museums (ZEDIKUM) has firmly established itself on Berlin's Museum Island in the first six months of its existence. The interdisciplinary research and service facility, which is based at the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the National Museums in B

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes 384 books from the Berlin State Library to the Potsdam St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" (23.06.2016)

    Today, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, handed over 384 volumes from the former library of the Masonic Lodge to Matthias Bohn, a member of the board of the St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" in Potsdam. The books were identified

  10. Marzona art collection remains in Berlin, close collaboration with archive in Dresden (22.06.2016)

    Grütters: Berlin and Dresden benefit from the collector's generosity. Parzinger: The Marzona Art Collection will remain an integral part of the future Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum. Cooperation between SPK and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden to be expanded. Egidio Marzona's collec