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  1. "Notturno" - Nightly chamber concert on 14 June in the new General Reading Room of the Staatsbibliothek in the Unter den Linden building (07.06.2013)

    Horn trio combined with an exclusive tour of the glass cube. As part of the chamber concert series "Notturno", which the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin has been organising in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 2010, the DSO invites you to the new General Reading R

  2. Humboldt Forum / Agora: Presentation of the content-related concept work (12.06.2013)

    Parallel to the Humboldt Forum's external appearance, its content is also taking shape. Today, exhibition organiser and cultural manager Martin Heller is presenting the "Humboldt Forum / Agora Content Concept" in the presence of Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, the Director of the Federa

  3. "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

  4. Markus Hilgert appointed new director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin (18.06.2013)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today unanimously appointed Professor Dr Markus Hilgert, born in 1969, as the new Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East at the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. He succeeds Professor Dr Beate Salje, w

  5. "Bronze Age - Europe without borders". Scientific significance of the exhibition with artefacts from the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History that were removed during the war (20.06.2013)

    From 21 June to 8 September 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will take place at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Its second stop will be at the State Historical Museum in Moscow from 15 October 2013 to 13 January 2014. The exhibition concept is the result of German-R

  6. Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Naryshkin meets SPK President Parzinger at the end of the Year of the Cross (02.07.2013)

    As part of his visit to Berlin to mark the end of the cross year Russia Year in Germany / Germany Year in Russia, the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey E. Naryshkin, in his capacity as Chairman of the Russian Historical Society, visited the President of the Prussian Cultura

  7. Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts restitutes two works to the heirs of the art dealer Bachstitz (09.07.2013)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned two works from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin to the two grandsons of the art dealer Kurt Walter Bachstitz. The objects in question are a writing tablet and a bronze mortar from the Renaissance period. The obje

  8. Hermann Parzinger elected member of the American Philosophical Society (26.06.2013)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is a new member of the American Philosophical Society. Founded in 1743, the American Philosophical Society promotes research in numerous disciplines in the humanities and natural sciences. Hermann Parzinger says: "As a non-Am

  9. Long-lost gold tablet returns to the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the National Museums in Berlin (04.12.2013)

    Today in New York, a three-thousand-year-old gold tablet from Assur, which had been lost by the Museum of the Ancient Near East in the turmoil at the end of the war, was returned to the museum. The handover took place in Nassau County Surrogate's Court, presided over by Judge Edward W. McCarty. The

  10. Another significant increase in the number of visits to German museums - over 112 million museum visits in 2012 (16.12.2013)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 112,807,633 museum visits in 2012. This represents an increase of 2.9 per cent compared to 2011 and is the highest number of visits since the survey of visit figures began in 1981. These figures have now been published in the overall statistical survey of museu