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  1. Hermann Parzinger honours Hermann Simon: A formative museum man goes into retirement (27.08.2015)

    Director of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum hands over his well-ordered house to his successor after almost thirty years - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents him with a season ticket for the Berlin museums The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum (13.08.2015)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum The German Historical Museum has received two paintings from the collections of the Zeughaus back from the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer

  3. Visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres rose again in 2014 (16.12.2015)

    German museums and exhibition centres recorded a total of almost 118 million visits in 2014, almost 3 million more than in the previous year. These figures were published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin and the German Museums Association. They have been conduct

  4. Press release and invitation: 10 years of German-Russian museum dialogue - ceremony and colloquium on 16 and 17 November in Berlin (06.11.2015)

    10 years of the German-Russian Museum Dialogue (DRMD): around two hundred directors and curators of Russian and German museums affected by war-related losses will meet in Berlin on 16 and 17 November to deepen their long-standing cooperation and discuss new projects. We cordially invite you to the f

  5. Kammermusikalisches Finale: ›Notturno‹-Konzert am 3. Juni im Alten Museum (25.05.2016)

    The DSO's Adamello Quartet plays works by Dutilleux and Mozart The last 'Notturno' chamber concert of this season will take place on 3 June in the Rotunda of the Altes Museum on Museum Island. The Adamello Quartet of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will perform Henri Dutilleux's string quar

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over Meyerheim painting to the German Historical Museum (30.05.2016)

    The painting "Dragoner-Regiment von Borke Nr 7" (1864) by Friedrich Wilhelm Meyerheim was kept in the Nationalgalerie as so-called foreign property and was also published as such. In the course of research by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), it has now been clearly identified as belonging to

  7. 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

  8. Museum of the 20th Century: Participation competition for the realisation competition begins (18.04.2016)

    Call for proposals published in the Official Journal of the European Union: We are looking for 15 teams of architects and landscape architects The process for the new construction of the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum is entering the next round. The invitation to tender for the p

  9. Topping-out ceremony on Museum Island: The James-Simon-Galerie takes shape (13.04.2016)

    With the construction of the high colonnades, the new entrance building to the Museum Island is visibly taking shape. The topping-out wreath was hoisted over the shell at midday today (13 April 2016). In the presence of Federal Building Minister Barbara Hendricks, Minister of State for Culture Monik

  10. What are the "beauties" of the Neues Museum? Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation at the Federal Foreign Office's "Moving People" forum (06.04.2016)

    From 13 to 15 April 2016, the "Moving People" forum will show what foreign cultural and educational policy is currently achieving, what topics it is addressing and how it should be developed further. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is also taking part in the extensive programme. As part of