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  1. New Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage published (19.12.2011)

    Volume 46 of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook documents the successful work and high-profile activities of the Foundation and its five institutions in 2010, focussing on the areas of building, exhibitions, research, acquisitions and cooperation. The Kolonnadenhof was ceremoniously reopened as

  2. Even higher visitor figures for German museums. Over 109 million museum visits in 2010 (14.12.2011)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 109,196,469 museum visits in 2010. This represents an increase of 2.2 per cent compared to 2009, and is the highest number of visits since the survey of visitor numbers began in 1981. The results are part of the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibit

  3. Joachim Jäger appointed Deputy Director of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin. Andreas Richter becomes the new Head of the Collection Development Department of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage (12.12.2011)

    At its meeting on 9 December 2011, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Joachim Jäger as the new Deputy Director of the Nationalgalerie and Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Jäger, born in Munich in 1963, hol

  4. Philipp Demandt becomes new director of the Alte Nationalgalerie (11.10.2011)

    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

  5. This year's winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation have been announced (14.01.2012)

    Students from Berlin and Freiburg have won this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The prizewinners' concert will take place on Sunday at the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt. This year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize for violin wa

  6. Experts from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation involved in uncovering forgeries in the Jägers Collection case. The significance of scientific analyses by the Rathgen Research Laboratory of the National Museums in Berlin (10.01.2012)

    In the trial concerning Jäger's alleged art collection, which led to a legally binding judgement at the end of December 2011, the results of the extensive scientific investigations carried out by the Rathgen research laboratory helped to substantiate the suspicion of art forgery and, in particular,

  7. Private sponsor supports the Museum of Islamic Art's digitisation project as part of the planned "Islamic Art Online" portal (30.01.2012)

    The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the art patron Yousef Jameel recently signed a contract to finance the digitisation, cataloguing and virtual preparation of large parts of the Museum of Islamic Art's collection. The generous funding from Yousef Jameel w

  8. Purchase of two watercolours by Wilhelm Lehmbruck - both works previously restituted to the heiress of the former owner Paul Westheim (27.01.2012)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently transferred ownership of the two watercolours "Susanna" (1914) and "Mother and Child" (1918) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) to the heiress of the art critic and collector Paul Westheim, Dr Margit Frenk. The works were purchased by the Prussian Cul

  9. Russians and Germans. 1000 years of art, history and culture (25.06.2012)

    6 October 2012 to 13 January 2013 at the Neues Museum From 6 October 2012 to 13 January 2013, the National Museums in Berlin are presenting the exhibition "Russians & Germans - 1000 Years of Art, History and Culture" at the Neues Museum on Museum Island. A few days ago, this exhibition opened at the

  10. Parzinger on the approval of the budget for the remodelling of the Gemäldegalerie (12.06.2012)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, explains: "I am delighted with the decision of the Bundestag to include the remodelling of the Gemäldegalerie in the supplementary budget for 2012 and would like to thank Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann for his ef