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  1. The "Forum Transregionale Studien" is founded (19.10.2009)

    The "Forum Transregionale Studien" was founded on 16 October 2009 at the official residence of the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It is based on a recommendation by the Berlin Science Commission, which sees this type of study as a special opportunity to raise Berlin's intern

  2. "museum4punkt0" starts: Ideas lab for digital applications in German museums (08.05.2017)

    Today sees the launch of "museum4punkt0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future", one of the most visionary projects in the German museum landscape. In a joint virtual experimental space, the project partners are exploring the possibilities and opportunities offered by the latest digital t

  3. Reopening of the State Library (08.12.2020)

    From 1 February 2021, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will welcome its users to the splendidly renovated building on Unter den Linden - opening ceremony on 25 January with a speech by Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble Completely renovated and modernised, equipped with a general and six reading ro

  4. "Bronze Age - Europe without borders". Exhibition of artefacts from the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History in the Hermitage that were taken away during the war (18.06.2013)

    On 21 June 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will open at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin. It is a joint project between the Hermitage Museum, the State Historical Museum (Moscow), t

  5. Berlin's "Museum of East Asian Art" and "Museum of Indian Art" to be united in future to form a "Museum of Asian Art" (05.12.2006)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation yesterday approved the merger of the Museums of East Asian Art and Indian Art. In future, they will be run as departments of the new "Museum of Asian Art". Their unification will strengthen the importance of both collections through

  6. Berlin State Library opens exhibition to mark 350th anniversary (03.03.2011)

    To mark its 350th anniversary, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is opening the special exhibition "A library makes history. 350 years of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin". For ten weeks, it will be presenting top items from its collections at nine stations. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian C

  7. Workshop on the exhibition concept for the non-European collections at the Humboldt Forum successfully concluded (08.04.2011)

    The International Advisory Board Humboldt Forum met for the first time from 6 to 8 April 2011. The expert committee consists of around forty renowned museum experts and academics from all continents. Its purpose is to provide critical support for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's exhibitio

  8. Intensification of bilateral science. Opening of the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" in Moscow (08.10.2013)

    On 15 October 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will open at the State Historical Museum in Moscow. The exhibition, which was previously shown in St. Petersburg and opened there by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin, is a joint project of the Hermit

  9. Adolph Menzel's "Oberregierungsrath Knerk" returns to the Kupferstichkabinett after more than seventy years (11.03.2019)

    Portrait sketch was to be auctioned at Grisebach - After initial indications of its provenance from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the auction house contacted the SPK - Collector decided to return it The portrait of "Geheimer Oberregierungsrath Knerk" (ca. 1863/1865) is a study for the monumental

  10. Opening of the restoration department and handover of the Berlin collection inventories in Luanda (17.05.2022)

    On 17 May 2022, the Goethe-Institut Angola presented the translation of the complete, multi-volume object list of the Angola collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin to the Angolan Ministry of Culture at a ceremony. In this way, the partners hope to contribute to greater transparency in the deba