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  1. Action week "Avantgarde Architecture" as part of the 8th Petersburg Dialogue from 29. 9. to 3. 10. 2008 in St. Petersburg (02.10.2008)

    As part of the 8th Petersburg Dialogue, the "Avant-garde Architecture" action week has been taking place in St. Petersburg since 29 September and will continue until 3 October 2008. The aim of the action week is to draw attention to the exceptionally rich heritage of architectural monuments from the

  2. Growing interest in museums and exhibition centres in Germany: over 113 million visits in 2007 (06.10.2008)

    The Institute for Museum Research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz has completed and analysed the statistical survey of visitor numbers to museums in the Federal Republic of Germany for 2007. Museums in Germany had a total of 107,303,946 visits in 2007. Compared to 2006, t

  3. Vidya Shah Emotion - Music - Emotion: Feeling Music. Classical Indian singing at the Bode Museum (06.10.2008)

    An event "On the way to the Humboldt Forum" Concert on 10 October 2008, 7 pm Venue: Basilica of the Bode Museum, Museum Island Berlin Admission free Organiser: Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Greetings: Hermann Parzinger , President of the Prussia

  4. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns three Meissen porcelain groups (06.08.2008)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned three Meissen porcelain groups from the Arnhold family's former collection to their legal successor, the company S.Bleichröder OHG i.L.. The pieces, which were confiscated due to persecution, were exhibited in the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the

  5. Objects that tell of the famous Silk Road (17.09.2008)

    The academy project "Turfan Research" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Museum of Asian Art - SMB (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) are partners in the EU project 'IDP-CREA The International Dunhuang Project - Cultural Routes of Eurasia Berlin, 17 September 2

  6. New research alliance for the preservation of cultural heritage (28.10.2008)

    The Presidents of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Leibniz Association and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding today at the Altes Museum (Museum Island Berlin) to establish the "Cultural Heritage Research Alliance". The aim is to significantly improve

  7. Ceremonial event "Loss and Restitution" on 30 October 2008, speech by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and spokesman for the "German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (30.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German

  8. Change in the office of Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Director of the Nationalgalerie (31.10.2008)

    The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, and the President of the Foundation, Prof Dr Hermann Parzinger, today bid farewell to Prof Dr Peter-Klaus Schuster as Director General of the National Museums in Berlin an

  9. Ceremony marking the change in the office of Director General of the National Museums in Berlin. Speech by the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger (31.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, When you, dear Mr Schuster, took up your post as Director General of the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich in 1998, you were asked whether the position of Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, which became vacant the following year,

  10. Manuscript from the Berlin State Library returned to Tel Aviv (06.11.2008)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned a Hebrew manuscript from the Berlin State Library to the "Beit Ariella" library in Tel Aviv. It is a Talmud commentary written in 1793, which was stolen from the public library in Israel around ten years ago. Unaware of this fact, the State Li