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  1. The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin (06.09.2016)

    From 4 December 2016, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will be offering an insight into the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) in the Gemäldegalerie. The collection is unique in its composition and history: not only does it have one of the largest holdi

  2. 'Notturno' - Summer open air in the garden of the Museum Berggruen A trio from the DSO will play works by Bruch, Françaix, Mozart and Smit on 16 June (09.06.2017)

    The chamber concert series 'Notturno' will conclude its season in the open air on 16 June. An ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will perform trio compositions for clarinet, viola and piano by Max Bruch, Jean Françaix, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Leo Smit in the garden of the Mus

  3. Wilhelm von Humboldt - founding father of the Museum Island (22.06.2017)

    Ceremony at the family seat Schloss Tegel / Parzinger: educational reformer and founding father of the Museum Island To mark the 250th anniversary of Wilhelm von Humboldt's birth, the Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Founding Di

  4. Museum of the 20th Century: Parzinger appoints advisory board (29.11.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has set up an advisory committee to support the planning of the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum in Berlin - in agreement with the Chair of the Foundation Council, Minister of State Monika Grütters. This goes back to a suggestion made by t

  5. Double bass from the Musical Instrument Museum adorns a 50-euro gold coin (26.04.2018)

    Five-part series to honour German musical instrument making planned until 2022 / Presentation of the first coin on 8 May at 6 pm with Bettina Hagedorn, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance, and SPK Vice President Günther Schauerte at the Musical Instrument Museum A double

  6. Lars-Christian Koch becomes Director of the Collections of the National Museums in Berlin at the Humboldt Forum (19.03.2018)

    Foundation Board unanimously elected the renowned ethnomusicologist today / Parzinger: Koch impresses with his expertise, experience and network The ethnomusicologist Lars-Christian Koch will become Director of the Ethnological Museum and soon also of the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums

  7. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over manuscripts to the German Historical Museum (14.03.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has handed over nine manuscripts to the German Historical Museum Foundation (DHM) that were in the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. The military-historical works belonged to the armoury library until the armoury was dissolved and were trans

  8. Museum of Islamic Art receives generous support from the Alwaleed Philanthropies (21.06.2018)

    Over the next ten years, the Alwaleed Philanthropies Foundation will support the future permanent exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art in the renovated Pergamon Museum, educational formats, cultural education in schools and the "Multaka" project The Museum of Islamic Art of the National Museums i

  9. Return from the Ethnological Museum to Native People in Alaska (16.05.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger presented them to the Vice President of the Chugach Alaska Corporation, Joh

  10. Haus Bastian will expand Berlin's Museum Island in future: the donation agreement has been signed (28.09.2017)

    The Bastian family will hand over the gallery building designed by David Chipperfield at Kupfergraben 10 to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation next year. It will be used in future as a centre for cultural education and will bear the name "Haus Bastian der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußi