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Volume 47 of the Yearbook of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has just been published. It documents the diverse, high-profile activities of the Foundation and its five institutions in 2011, with a particular focus on the anniversary of the State Library, the Humboldt Forum, classical studie

While the restitution of cultural objects is at the centre of the debate in Europe, completely different questions arise in their places of origin, which have to do with the friction between a global economy and regionally specific conditions, which in turn can be traced back to the colonial past. T

The motifs are places or objects from Jewish collectors that play a role in the project "Art, Looting and Restitution - Forgotten Life Stories" The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its President Hermann Parzinger are taking part in the #WeRemember campaign organised by the World Jewish Cong

Italian musicologist, restorer and curator with international experience in museum work takes over from Conny Restle on 15 July The Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research is getting a new director. The musicologist, restorer and curator Emanuele Marconi will take over fr

The foundation stone for berlin modern at the Kulturforum was laid on 9 February 2024 in the presence of Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and the Governing Mayor of Berlin Kai Wegner. Other speakers included Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Danyal

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

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

Construction clearance of the south wing in full swing - dismantling of numerous permanently installed exhibits has been completed - preparations for the relocation of the Museum of Islamic Art to the north wing The museums are currently working at full speed to clear the south wing of the Pergamonm

Before the Second World War, the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin owned over 400 works by the photographer Ottomar Anschütz. A large part of these are considered lost. Recently, Anschütz's great-grandson gave the museum six photographs of wolves and foxes taken in 1886. Holger Anschütz

Heinz Berggruen has said goodbye. On the evening of 23 February, he passed away peacefully in Paris at the age of 93 - heart failure. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin received the news of his death with dismay and great sadness. The Museum Berggruen, with