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  1. On the death of Heinz Berggruen (26.02.2007)

    Heinz Berggruen has said goodbye. On the evening of 23 February, he passed away peacefully in Paris at the age of 93 - heart failure. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin received the news of his death with dismay and great sadness. The Museum Berggruen, with

  2. Annual press conference 2007 (23.01.2007)

    On 23 January 2007, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2006 was give

  3. "Merovingian period - Europe without borders. Archaeology and history of the 5th to 8th centuries". Exhibition opening with looted artefacts in Russia (09.03.2007)

    On Monday, 12 March 2007, the joint exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders" by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the Berlin State Museums, the Pushkin State Museum Moscow, the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg and the State Historical Museum Moscow will be opened at

  4. The members of the Museum Island Berlin Board of Trustees on David Chipperfield's plans: (20.04.2007)

    Preserving what is historically authentic, adding to what has been lost without imitating it and integrating a careful, high-quality modernity - that is the right approach. Museum Island Berlin unites outstanding museum architecture and forms a globally unique ensemble. The Museum Island Board of Tr

  5. Museum commission reiterates conservation concerns about the loan of Nefertiti (20.04.2007)

    The Museum Commission of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, a body of independent experts, firmly opposes the naive and disrespectful view of CulturCooperation to send Nefertiti on tour like a pop star without regard for conservation care and responsibility. The 3000-year-old Nefertiti must

  6. Building on world heritage (16.04.2007)

    From 11 - 13 April 2007, under the chairmanship of Mikhail Gorbachev and Dr. h.c. Lothar de Maizière, the German-Russian Steering Committee of the Petersburg Dialogue met in Kaliningrad (Königsberg). The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Berlin and the Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg decided to

  7. Heiner Bastian (26.03.2007)

    Heiner Bastian has announced in the magazine Monopol that he is resigning as curator of the Erich Marx Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments: "As early as October 2004, the President of the P

  8. "Merovingian period - Europe without borders. Archaeology and history of the 5th to 8th centuries". An exhibition of the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Russia (12.03.2007)

    In the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and his Russian counterpart Sokolov, an exhibition was opened today at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow that is not only a milestone in the cultural-historical presentation of the early Middle Ages, but is also of eminent cultural-politi

  9. Speech by the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, at the opening of the exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders" on 12 March 2007 in Moscow (12.03.2007)

    Germany and Russia have a long shared history, a history that is not only characterised by real political developments, but also to a large extent by close cultural ties and connections. Literature, music, theatre and the fine arts have had a profound and lasting mutual impact in both countries. Mus

  10. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns artworks from GDR expropriation (23.05.2007)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned works from the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Alte Nationalgalerie to the heir of the collector Helmuth Meißner, who was expropriated in violation of the GDR constitution. The Dresden native's well-known and extensive art collection was