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Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, accepted the 2009 Innovation Award from Klaus Laepple, President of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry, at the Tourism Summit yesterday evening. The Foundation received the award for its highly publicised

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, was presented with the "Order of Friendship" by Russian President Medvedev at a ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow today. This highest Russian honour for foreign citizens was awarded to him in recognition of his outstanding sc

On 30 October 2009, David Chipperfield Architects and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation were awarded the special prize for the Berlin Architecture Prize 2009 for the restoration of the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foun

Museums in Germany reported a total of 104,852,334 visits in 2008. Although this represents a decrease of 2.3% compared to 2007, it is still the second-highest number of visits since the survey began in 1981. These figures have now been published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National

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

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Sabine Thümmler as the future Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Dr Angela Schönberger, who is retiring at the end of February

On Monday (11 January 2010), the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returned two books formerly owned by the Counts of Lynar to their heirs. The two volumes from the 17th century had come to the attention of the Berlin State Library during the processing of its holdings. Their provenance could be

The Director of the Egyptian Museum of the National Museums in Berlin, Friederike Seyfried, also met with Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Administration, last Sunday as part of her inaugural visit to her Egyptian colleagues in Cairo. In this context, Seyfried emphasises: "M

Recent newspaper reports that the Director of the Egyptian Museum of the National Museums in Berlin, Dr Friederike Seyfried, is negotiating with Dr Zahi-Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Administration, in Cairo about the whereabouts of the famous bust of Nefertiti are completely

Olaf Metzel (Munich) and Tobias Rehberger (Frankfurt am Main) have won the art-in-architecture competition for the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building. From tomorrow, all submitted designs will be on display in the Potsdamer Straße building. On 20 November 2009, the winners of the