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  1. New director for the Berlin Museum of Asian Art (01.12.2009)

    Dr Klaas Ruitenbeek will succeed Prof. Dr Willibald Veit, who retired yesterday, as Director of the Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from the beginning of January 2010. Ruitenbeek, who was unanimously chosen by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Egyptian Museum in Berlin with new management (26.06.2009)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Friederike Seyfried as the future Director of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Professor Dr Dietrich Wildung in July 2009, who

  5. 1500 masterpieces for the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art (10.06.2009)

    Today, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is signing a contract at the Pergamonmuseum for an extensive permanent loan of the de Unger Collection. The collector Edmund de Unger is represented by his lawyer and his son Richard de Unger. Edmund de Unger's collect

  6. British heir to the throne visits Berlin's Museum Island (30.04.2009)

    Today, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, which, following its structural completion, is now being furnished and prepared for its opening on 16 October 2009. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio

  7. 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

  8. Visit by the Director of the Berlin Egyptian Museum in Cairo (21.12.2009)

    The Director of the Egyptian Museum of the National Museums in Berlin, Friederike Seyfried, also met with Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Administration, last Sunday as part of her inaugural visit to her Egyptian colleagues in Cairo. In this context, Seyfried emphasises: "M

  9. 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

  10. 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