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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. South Seas department of the Ethnological Museum in Dahlem closed from tomorrow due to urgent safety measures (19.12.2007)

    From tomorrow, the South Sea Department of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin (Museen Dahlem) will have to be closed for an estimated two months due to extremely urgent construction work. The reason for this is the recent discovery of structural damage to the concrete pillars,

  4. With more than 109 million visits in 2006, interest in museums and exhibition centres remains high (21.12.2007)

    The Institute for Museum Research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz has statistically analysed the visitor figures collected at museums throughout Germany as well as other data for 2006 and published them in a publication. Museums in Germany recorded a total of 102,645,078

  5. The new Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook has been published (21.12.2007)

    The 43rd volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on the significant events and developments of 2006. The reopening of the Bode Museum, formerly the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, was a glittering highlight of the year and at the same time a decisive step on the way to the restoration

  6. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's most successful year to date draws to a close (21.12.2007)

    At the end of the 50th year of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Germany's largest cultural institution can look back on the most successful year in its history. With an increase of around 20 per cent compared to the previous year, the number of visitors to the National Museums in Berlin ro

  7. Young Musicians' Prize - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition 2008 has been decided (12.01.2008)

    The decision for the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize 2008 was made today. In a two-day competition, the best students from Germany's music academies once again competed for first place in two musical subjects, which change every year. In the piano quartet category, the Orion Quartet from the Folkw

  8. 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

  9. Building for research and cultural heritage - Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden celebrates topping-out ceremony (05.02.2008)

    Today's topping-out ceremony in the presence of Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Building, André Schmitz, State Secretary for Culture of the State of Berlin, and Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, marks the pleasing progre

  10. Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart receives 166 works of contemporary art as a donation from Friedrich Christian Flick (19.02.2008)

    Today in Berlin, the art collector Friedrich Christian Flick and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Klaus-Dieter Lehmann signed a contract for the donation of 166 outstanding works by 44 contemporary artists. It is the result of the constructive and successful collaboration b