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  1. Ambassadors' conference at the Ethnological Museum Berlin (06.09.2007)

    Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Peter-Klaus Schuster, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, welcomed Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the heads of German missions abroad to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin-Dahlem ye

  2. Ceremony "50 Years of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation" on Friday, 7 September 2007, at 11 a.m. in the Konzerthaus Berlin am Gendarmenmarkt (07.09.2007)

    Thanks to Prof. Dr h.c. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - The spoken word prevails - It is a moving moment to be able to stand here on the stage of the Konzerthaus and say thank you. This building, opened in 1821, is not only festive, but also has the same

  3. New Director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and new Head of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin (18.12.2007)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Prof Dr Matthias Wemhoff as the new Director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and Dr Julien Chapuis as Director of the Sculpture Collection. Both decisions were unanimous. The two collecti

  4. New Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and new Director of the Nationalgalerie elected (18.12.2007)

    The Board of Trustees today unanimously elected Dr Michael Eissenhauer as the future Director General of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). On 1 November 2008, he will succeed Prof. Dr Peter-Klaus Schuster, who will retire at the end of October 2008. The Bo

  5. New Head of the Music Department of the Berlin State Library (01.02.2008)

    From 1 April 2008, Dr Martina Rebmann will take over the management of the music department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. This decision was taken by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage

  6. Architectural competition for the new depot building of the National Museums in Berlin decided (12.06.2008)

    The Speicherstadt for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Friedrichshagen The architects AV1 Architekten, Kaiserslautern, are the winners of the competition for the new depots and workshops of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. The j

  7. Symposium on 11 and 12 December 2008 in Berlin. "Taking responsibility. Nazi-looted art - a challenge for museums, libraries and archives" (11.12.2008)

    Introductory lecture by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: "Ways to more responsibility. Dealing with Nazi-looted art 10 years after Washington" - The spoken word prevails - The prehistory Since those dark days of National Socialist rule in our country, public

  8. Berlin conference on dealing with cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution successfully concluded (12.12.2008)

    After two days of intense discussion, the symposium "Verantwortung wahrnehmen / Taking responsibility", organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property to mark the tenth anniversary of the "Washington Principles" and sponsored by t

  9. Over 150 masterpieces of traditional Japanese art from the Klaus F. Naumann Collection for the Berlin Museum of Asian Art: donation and purchase (02.04.2009)

    The Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is today receiving the most important donation of traditional Japanese art in around a hundred years in a festive ceremony. Klaus F. Naumann, a native of Berlin who lives in Tokyo, is giving the museum more than one hundred works, including

  10. The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island - a jewel of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (20.04.2009)

    The New Museum. On 16 October 2009, the Neues Museum will reopen after 70 years. The building, which was severely damaged in the Second World War and preserved as a ruin, has been restored over the last ten years according to plans by David Chipperfield and was handed over to the Prussian Cultural H