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From 1 February 2021, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will welcome its users to the splendidly renovated building on Unter den Linden - opening ceremony on 25 January with a speech by Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble Completely renovated and modernised, equipped with a general and six reading ro

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently restituted six books from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria. The volumes come from the Jewish Community's former Cossmann Werner Library, which once comprised more than 10,000 volumes. As pa

The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin ended with an impressive concert on Sunday. The first prize winners of this year's competition in viola, trumpet and clarinet played accompanied by the symphony orchestra of the Orchesterzentrum NRW under the direction of Garry Walker.

The "Humboldt Lab Tanzania" project and the closely related provenance research project "Tanzania-Germany: Shared Object Histories?" have been running at the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin since 2016. The museum worked together with actors from Tanzania on object histories of

On 26 January 2010, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. The annual press conference also presented new projects, developments and exhibitions, reported on building projects and took stock of 2009. The following spoke: Her

On 25 January 2011, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. The annual press conference also presented new projects, developments and exhibitions, reported on building projects and took stock of 2010. The following spoke: Her

The art historian Philipp Demandt will take over as director of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz on 2 January 2012. Philipp Demandt, born in 1971, studied art history, classical archaeology and journalism and completed his doctorate in 2001 at th

The long-standing President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation celebrates his 85th birthday this Sunday - Born in Braunschweig, he headed Germany's largest cultural institution in Berlin for over twenty years On the occasion of his 85th birthday this Sunday (31 January), the President of t

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

The 49th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook, which looks back on 2013, was published at the turn of the year. Numerous articles illustrate the range of topics that concern the foundation. Particularly interesting on the occasion of the current developments surrounding the Kulturforum: