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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. German museums and exhibition centres remain extremely popular - almost 116 million visits in 2013 (18.12.2014)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 110,425,002 visits in 2013. This is the second-highest number of visits since the first complete survey began in 1981. Only in the previous year 2012 was the figure slightly higher (2.1 per cent). The 8,942 special exhibitions organised by German museums contri

  5. Bernhard Weisser appointed new director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin (05.12.2014)

    Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser will become Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage on 1 June 2015. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foundation Board today. Weisser has been acting Director of the Coin Cabinet since the end of Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge

  6. 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

  7. Positioning on the future of Berlin's museum landscape (21.08.2013)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Director General of the National Museums in Berlin see a new building at the Kulturforum as a significant and realisable step towards the further development of Berlin's museum landscape. This will create the urgently needed presenta

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and National Museums in Berlin with welcome programme for refugees (01.10.2015)

    Kuratorium Preussischer Kulturbesitz supports guided tour and workshop programme for children, families and adults. The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation invite refugees in Berlin to familiarise themselves with selected museums and offer free guided tours and wo

  9. The future of Berlin's Kulturforum begins: SPK launches ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century (03.09.2015)

    New museum complex will house the important holdings of the Nationalgalerie - ideas competition to deliver architectural concept and submit proposals for urban planning organisation The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is launching one of its most important new building projects. Over the next

  10. ATTENTION: NEW LOCATION FOR PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY ON 3 SEPTEMBER 2015 (02.09.2015)

    The press conference on the launch of the ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century on 3 September 2015 at 10 a.m. will take place NOT in the foyer of the Kulturforum but in the Curt-Sachs-Saal of the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage Tiergartenstraße 1 entranc