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  1. Gero Dimter appointed new Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (18.12.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is getting a new Vice President. Gero Dimter succeeds Günther Schauerte, who has held the post since 2011 and is now retiring. This was decided by the Board of Trustees, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters. The Prussian Cultural Heritage

  2. Talks continue on handling Benin bronzes and on a roadmap for planned returns in 2022 (08.07.2021)

    Nigerian delegation visits Germany: guests view Humboldt Forum and objects in Dahlem As part of a visit to Germany organised by the Federal Foreign Office, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the "Edo State Museum of West African Art" (EMOWAA) being built in Benin City, visi

  3. Compete with the best: Five days of violin and piano trio competition (25.08.2021)

    The best students in violin and piano trio will compete in the 2021 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition. The musicians will present their skills to the top-class jury of Germany's oldest competition for young talent in classical music from 11 to 15 September 2021 in Berlin. The partic

  4. Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Naryshkin meets SPK President Parzinger at the end of the Year of the Cross (02.07.2013)

    As part of his visit to Berlin to mark the end of the cross year Russia Year in Germany / Germany Year in Russia, the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey E. Naryshkin, in his capacity as Chairman of the Russian Historical Society, visited the President of the Prussian Cultura

  5. Dr des. Andrea Schlosser receives Ernst Waldschmidt Prize of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation / Award honours outstanding academic achievements in the field of Indology (02.12.2014)

    Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a

  6. Found in the United States: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recovers Egyptian stele that had been lost since the Second World War (30.05.2017)

    Valuable faience stele resurfaced in Michigan after seventy years during research work / Parzinger thanks American museum for great gesture A valuable Egyptian object that recently returned to Berlin can be seen again in the Neues Museum on Museum Island from mid-June. The upper part of a faience st

  7. Pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (18.01.2022)

    From 20 to 23 January 2022, vaccinations will take place in the foyer of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Kulturforum. Vaccination protects - including culture. That's why the SPK and Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH will be setting up a pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (Matthäikirchplatz

  8. Winner of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2013 (21.01.2013)

    The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2013 have been announced. The jury awarded three first, five second and three third prizes as well as other special prizes. The total of the main and special prizes awarded this year amounts to 51,000 euros. In addition to the cas

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents its annual programme and plans for the future (28.04.2022)

    Annual reception 2022 in the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: We have new strategic goals and are facing up to the great challenges of our time The institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provide an insight into their annual programme and their plans for the future. As President He

  10. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition decided - Prize goes to cello-piano duo from the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts (17.01.2010)

    Tonight, the prize-winning duo Christine Rauh (cello) and Johannes Nies (piano) from the Hanover University of Music and Theatre, who won this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition, will present themselves to the audience in the concert hall of the Berlin University of the Arts. Germany's o