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  1. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger on the Science Council's recommendations: a first step and a great opportunity (13.07.2020)

    The German Council of Science and Humanities today presented the results of its evaluation of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger comments: "I would like to thank the German Council of Science and Humanities for the comprehensive analysis, the critical d

  2. Shaping the future with knowledge of the past - Hermann Parzinger on the "Expedition Future" exhibition train (23.04.2009)

    Today, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the "Expedition Future" exhibition train in Berlin. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, answers the question of why we are researching and preserving evidence of past cultures in carriage 11, which is dedicated

  3. Hermann Parzinger on the donation by Heiner Bastian (06.10.2016)

    On the surprising news that the Heiner Bastian family will donate the house Bastian am Kupfergraben to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, waiving any compensation and without conditions, says Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK: "We are really surprised! You don't receive such a generous

  4. Max Hollein in conversation with Hermann Parzinger at the Neue Nationalgalerie on 18 November at 20:00 (12.11.2021)

    The Director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation talk about the Kulturforum and new challenges for museums after the pandemic Max Hollein was a child when his father, the architect Hans Hollein, was busy combining the Berlin Kulturf

  5. Hermann Parzinger on the joint project of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow "Donatello and Renaissance Sculpture" (19.05.2016)

    As part of the long-term cooperation between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, sculptures and fragments from the Italian Renaissance that were part of the Berlin sculpture collection before the war were identified in the Moscow museum in 2015. As a

  6. Hermann Parzinger on the subject of the Gemäldegalerie's move to the Museum Island (24.02.2014)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the statements made by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters on the subject of the Gemäldegalerie's relocation to Museum Island (interview, Berliner Morgenpost, 23 February 2014): "I welcome the fact that

  7. Hermann Parzinger welcomes the increased number of research projects on provenance research and investigation (22.04.2009)

    Yesterday, the Advisory Board of the Provenance Research Centre at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided for the second time on applications for funding for long-term provenance research projects. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said: "It is an

  8. Hermann Parzinger on Today's Meeting Regarding the Future of Benin Bronzes (29.04.2021)

    It was a historic encounter: today, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the directors of the German museums in the Benin Dialogue Group, the cultural affairs ministers of the Länder, and representatives of the German Foreign Office agreed on a joint statement concerning th

  9. Ceremonial event "Loss and Restitution" on 30 October 2008, speech by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and spokesman for the "German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (30.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German

  10. Ceremony marking the change in the office of Director General of the National Museums in Berlin. Speech by the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger (31.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, When you, dear Mr Schuster, took up your post as Director General of the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich in 1998, you were asked whether the position of Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, which became vacant the following year,