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Architects Harris + Kurrle from Stuttgart have won the competition to realise the northern part of the Museumshöfe, an extension to the Museum Island in Berlin. Yesterday, a jury chaired by Prof. Arno Lederer decided in favour of the design, which is characterised by two overlapping, horizontally em

On Monday, 12 March 2007, the joint exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders" by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the Berlin State Museums, the Pushkin State Museum Moscow, the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg and the State Historical Museum Moscow will be opened at

My Berlin began with Heinz Berggruen - professionally and emotionally. When I became President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in February 1999, one of my first encounters was with Heinz and Bettina Berggruen in the Stüler Building, in the Berggruen Collection. It was friendship at firs

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

In the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and his Russian counterpart Sokolov, an exhibition was opened today at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow that is not only a milestone in the cultural-historical presentation of the early Middle Ages, but is also of eminent cultural-politi

From 11 - 13 April 2007, under the chairmanship of Mikhail Gorbachev and Dr. h.c. Lothar de Maizière, the German-Russian Steering Committee of the Petersburg Dialogue met in Kaliningrad (Königsberg). The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin and the Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg decided to

Heiner Bastian has announced in the magazine Monopol that he is resigning as curator of the Erich Marx Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments: "As early as October 2004, the President of the P

Germany and Russia have a long shared history, a history that is not only characterised by real political developments, but also to a large extent by close cultural ties and connections. Literature, music, theatre and the fine arts have had a profound and lasting mutual impact in both countries. Mus

Preserving what is historically authentic, adding to what has been lost without imitating it and integrating a careful, high-quality modernity - that is the right approach. Museum Island Berlin unites outstanding museum architecture and forms a globally unique ensemble. The Museum Island Board of Tr

The Museum Commission of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, a body of independent experts, firmly opposes the naive and disrespectful view of CulturCooperation to send Nefertiti on tour like a pop star without regard for conservation care and responsibility. The 3000-year-old Nefertiti must