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  1. New Director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and new Head of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin (18.12.2007)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Prof Dr Matthias Wemhoff as the new Director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and Dr Julien Chapuis as Director of the Sculpture Collection. Both decisions were unanimous. The two collecti

  2. Positioning on the future of Berlin's museum landscape (21.08.2013)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Director General of the National Museums in Berlin see a new building at the Kulturforum as a significant and realisable step towards the further development of Berlin's museum landscape. This will create the urgently needed presenta

  3. Exemplary partnership between Ethnological Museum and Museums Association of Namibia on colonial collection launched (18.09.2019)

    Provenance research with Namibian scientists at the Ethnological Museum - Objects travel to Windhoek - Networking with cultural heritage communities, artists and the public in Namibia in the project "Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures" As part of a partnership between the Museu

  4. Germany's oldest music competition: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prizes 2006 awarded (17.01.2006)

    This highly regarded competition for young musicians is organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in cooperation with Germany's state music academies and is awarded to outstanding young musicians studying at German music academies in different subjects each year. Frederic Belli (Hanover

  5. Humboldt Lab Tanzania - Shared object histories (03.07.2018)

    The "Humboldt Lab Tanzania" project and the closely related provenance research project "Tanzania-Germany: Shared Object Histories?" have been running at the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin since 2016. The museum worked together with actors from Tanzania on object histories of

  6. Hermann Parzinger receives the "Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Academy Prize for the Humanities" (27.02.2013)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, receives the "Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Academy Prize for the Humanities". The prize, endowed with 25,000 euros, is awarded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and was presented for the first time in 2013. Parzinger

  7. New director of the Museum of Islamic Art (03.07.2008)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Dr Stefan Weber as the new Director of the Museum of Islamic Art at the National Museums in Berlin. From 1 February 2009, the 41-year-old will be the immediate successor to the current Director, Prof.

  8. On yesterday's ARD programme "FAKT" about human remains from the former colony of German East Africa / Parzinger does not rule out returns (23.11.2016)

    Yesterday's programme FAKT (ARD, 21.45 hrs) reported on allegedly new finds of human skulls from the colonial era, including in an alleged in a supposed "secret depot" of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Cultural Heritage Foundation. In 2014 and 2015, the SPK issued several press releases

  9. Annual press conference 2010 (26.01.2010)

    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

  10. Annual press conference 2011 (25.01.2011)

    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