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  1. On the death of Otto Piene (18.07.2014)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the death of the Zero artist: "Otto Piene epitomises the great spirit of optimism of the 1960s. With his works, he pushed forward into completely new dimensions of art. His installation in the Neue Nationalgalerie

  2. And in the evening in the Mies-Bau: 'Notturno' in the Neue Nationalgalerie on 7 November. Works by Gabrielli, Dorfman and Brahms in dialogue with art (29.10.2014)

    On 7 November 2014, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will open the fifth season of their joint chamber concert series "Notturno" at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Mies van der Rohe's masterpiece, which has been home to modern art in the capital since

  3. Top researcher for Berlin's museum heritage: successful application for multi-million Humboldt Professorship (23.10.2014)

    Sharon Jeanette Macdonald has been nominated for Germany's most highly endowed research award: the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). The prize money amounts to five

  4. Ibero-American Institute receives international award for outstanding mediation and networking work (09.10.2014)

    The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is the first German institution to receive the "Premio ASICOM-Universidad de Oviedo". It is being honoured for its outstanding educational and networking work on Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Hermann

  5. Parzinger on the reopening of the Museum of Decorative Arts: A place of inspiration for a creative city (20.11.2014)

    The Museum of Decorative Arts at the Kulturforum reopens this Friday after three years of remodelling. The collection of the oldest museum of its kind in Germany has been reorganised at a cost of 4.3 million euros and the foyer has been redesigned. The main attraction is a new fashion and design gal

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Berlin collectors welcome the decision of the Bundestag Budget Committee on the extension to the Neue Nationalgalerie / Parzinger: A brilliant act with a great impact on the future (13.11.2014)

    The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided at its review meeting on 13 November 2014 to make 200 million euros available to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation over the coming years for the construction of a new Museum of Modern Art on Potsdamer Strasse. The Pietzsch, Marx and Marzon

  7. Conference "Cultural property in danger: looted excavations and illegal trade" (11.11.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute and the German Association for Archaeology are organising an international conference in Berlin on 11 and 12 December in cooperation with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Federal Forei

  8. New scanning technology CultLab3D: How museum pieces can be digitised on the assembly line (05.11.2014)

    It's a revolution in museums: with the CultLab3D scanning line, collection artefacts can be captured in three dimensions and converted into authentic digital models in just a few minutes. While 3D reproduction techniques for museum treasures were previously expensive and, above all, time-consuming,

  9. Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage established: Leading companies support the work of the foundation (31.10.2014)

    In future, a new funding body will support the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a partner: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees. The association of leading German commercial enterprises will provide financial support for SPK projects and assist the Foundation in the realisation o

  10. Berlin State Library restitutes 13 volumes to the Jewish Community of Vienna (04.12.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted 13 volumes from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG Vienna). The volumes in question were published between 1840 and 1914. Four volumes were formerly owned by the Jewish Community, the other ni