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  1. Speech by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (05.03.2009)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutation, The Neues Museum has been restored, that is a reason for great joy and it is like a miracle! Severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War, completely destroyed in parts and left as a ruin, exposed to wind and weather for many decades - and now it s

  2. 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

  3. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on the current restitution debate. Clarification of the provenance and restitution of Nazi-looted art remain key issues (14.04.2009)

    Commenting on the current restitution debate, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said: "As Norman Rosenthal rightly points out, the restitution of artworks cannot make up for the inconceivable crimes committed by the Nazi regime against the European Jews. Germ

  4. 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

  5. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Goethe-Institut cooperate nationally and internationally (22.04.2009)

    The Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut Hans-Georg Knopp and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger signed a cooperation agreement in Berlin on 22 April 2009. The close cooperation between Germany's largest intermediary organisation for foreign cultural wor

  6. Hermann Parzinger welcomes the increased number of research projects on provenance research and investigation (22.04.2009)

    Yesterday, the Advisory Board of the Provenance Research Centre at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided for the second time on applications for funding for long-term provenance research projects. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said: "It is an

  7. Shaping the future with knowledge of the past - Hermann Parzinger on the "Expedition Future" exhibition train (23.04.2009)

    Today, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the "Expedition Future" exhibition train in Berlin. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, answers the question of why we are researching and preserving evidence of past cultures in carriage 11, which is dedicated

  8. In the lens of the enemy. The German photojournalists in occupied Warsaw 1939-1945 (27.04.2009)

    From 28 April to 3 June 2009, the Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus e.V. is showing an exhibition to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War with the German invasion of Poland. An exhibition organised by the House of Encounters with History (Dom Spotkán z. Historia),

  9. British heir to the throne visits Berlin's Museum Island (30.04.2009)

    Today, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, which, following its structural completion, is now being furnished and prepared for its opening on 16 October 2009. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio

  10. 1500 masterpieces for the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art (10.06.2009)

    Today, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is signing a contract at the Pergamonmuseum for an extensive permanent loan of the de Unger Collection. The collector Edmund de Unger is represented by his lawyer and his son Richard de Unger. Edmund de Unger's collect