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  1. Slight increase in visitor numbers to German museums - Over 109 million museum visits in 2011 (13.12.2012)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 109,581,613 museum visits in 2011. This represents an increase of 0.35 per cent compared to 2010, and is once again the highest number of visits since the survey began in 1981. The results are part of the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition cen

  2. Handing over the keys to the State Library's General Reading Room (10.12.2012)

    Unter den Linden created the best structural conditions for users, valuable collections and librarians. Today, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, and the Director General of the Berlin State Library, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, receive the keys to the new Gen

  3. FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY UNIVERSITY COMPETITION 2013 (10.01.2013)

    From 2013, Kurt Masur will be the patron of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition Kurt Masur is the patron of this year's new Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition. Through his work and also through his role as President of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation Lei

  4. Germany's oldest classical music competition reinvents itself - winners of the composition category announced (10.12.2012)

    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2013 organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Rectors' Conference of German Music Universities and the Berlin University of the Arts In 2013, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will take place for the first tim

  5. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation publishes magazine on the Humboldt Forum (21.05.2015)

    To coincide with the topping-out ceremony for the new Berlin Palace, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is publishing a magazine focussing on the outstanding collections of African, Oceanian and American art and culture that will be on display at the Humboldt Forum from 2019. The 60-page maga

  6. Annual press conference 2013 (30.01.2013)

    On 30 January 2013, 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 2012 was give

  7. 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

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities plan closer professional cooperation (28.02.2013)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities as well as the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities have decided to co-operate more closely in future. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Mohamed Ibrahim Ali, M

  9. Lost ivory jug back in the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts (14.03.2013)

    A precious ivory jug from the early 18th century has been returned to the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The object had not returned from its storage location in Berlin after the Second World War and was long considered lost. The Prague Museum of Decorative Arts, which had acqui

  10. The 'foreigner' and me: migration and integration as an opportunity. An event in the Year of Science 2013 - The demographic opportunity (22.05.2013)

    "Das 'Fremde' und ich - Migration und Integration als Chance" - this is the title of a panel of experts discussing demographic change from different perspectives on 30 May 2013 from 12 noon at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Gendarmenmarkt. The joint event organised by t