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The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island has been awarded the "European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture/Mies van der Rohe Award 2011". This was announced yesterday by the European Commission. It was selected from 343 applicants from 33 European countries. The prize will be awarded on 20

The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Biblioteka Narodowa - Polish National Library will cooperate in the future in the areas of processing and preserving the common cultural heritage and digitising their library collections. Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of t

The Museum of Islamic Art of the National Museums in Berlin and the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony want to place the cultural diversity of Islam at the centre of their work - interview in the new SPK magazine with Nanette J. Snoep and Stefan Weber In their work, the Museum of Islamic Art o

At the end of December 2011, the Presidium of the Leopoldina elected Hermann Parzinger, the archaeologist, prehistorian and President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, as a new member of the Academy on the recommendation of the Academy members. He is a member of the Cultural Studies Sect

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, explains: "I am delighted with the decision of the Bundestag to include the remodelling of the Gemäldegalerie in the supplementary budget for 2012 and would like to thank Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann for his ef

Long-standing Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation dies at the age of 75 - Parzinger: A veteran of the SPK The former Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Norbert Zimmermann, is dead. He died last week in Berlin at the age of 75. Zimmermann served the f

The ground-breaking ceremony for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century took place today in the presence of Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture, and Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin. The event on the construction site of the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Strasse is a milesto

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the State of Berlin today presented the results of their joint provenance research project on the holdings of the former Gallery of the 20th Century. Over the past three years, two researchers have systematically analysed around 450 works of art created

Prof Dr Verena Lepper, currently curator at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, is leaving Berlin for California. The 52-year-old Egyptologist and orientalist will head the Getty Villa in Los Angeles in future. The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades is one of the two locations of the J. Paul G

Parzinger: Day of joy and appreciation for the Nationalgalerie / Celebration with Minister of State for Culture Grütters and Governing Mayor Müller at the Villa von der Heydt Now that it has been decided who will build the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum, the collector couple Ulla