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On 1 April 1924, the colourful bust of Queen Nefertiti was presented to a wider public for the first time in a museum setting, in a newly designed section of the permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Collection in the Neues Museum. The bust was found in Tell-el-Amarna in 1912 as part of a scientific

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

Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz succeed in joint acquisition - thanks to Kulturstiftung der Länder and Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung The "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" by Caspar David Friedrich is staying in Germany! The Klassik Stiftung We

Today sees the end of a working session lasting several days at the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History to prepare the German-Russian exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders", which will also show artefacts relocated from Berlin to Russia as a result of the war. Following a

The Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg is to be extended according to the plans of architects Kuehn Malvezzi. This was announced today as the result of a selection process. The extension is linked to over seventy high-calibre long-term loans that the Berggruen family is making available to th

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently acquired Klaus F. Naumann's lacquer collection for the Museum of Asian Art. It comprises 55 high-ranking East Asian lacquer works that exemplify a central art genre of Japan, the Ryūkyū Islands and China. At its core is Japanese lacquer art, which i