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  1. Night concert on the Museum Island: 'Notturno' at the Neues Museum on 16 January Works by C. Ph. E. Bach, Couperin, Vivaldi and Zelenka in dialogue with art (09.01.2015)

    For the second 'Notturno' chamber concert of the season, an eight-piece ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will embark on an interdisciplinary search for clues in the Neues Museum on 16 January. Since its reopening in 2009, the building on Museum Island has housed important exhib

  2. Festive concerts by the greatest young talents (06.01.2015)

    The winners of the 2015 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will be presented to the public in three festive concerts at the University of the Arts in mid-January From 14 to 16 January, the best students at German music academies in the fields of viola, trumpet, clarinet and vocal ens

  3. Triumph for Berlin scientist Verena Lepper: 1.5 million euros ERC Starting Grant for research on the Egyptian Museum's papyrus collection on the Nile island of Elephantine (30.12.2014)

    The Berlin Egyptologist and Orientalist Prof Dr Verena Lepper has received one of the most important awards in the world of research, the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She now has access to funding for her research project "Localising 4000 Years of Cultural History. Te

  4. A glittering start to the year: Germany's oldest classical music competition takes place again in January (18.12.2014)

    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2015 organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Rectors' Conference of German Music Universities and the Berlin University of the Arts The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2015 will be held in the fields of viola,

  5. German museums and exhibition centres remain extremely popular - almost 116 million visits in 2013 (18.12.2014)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 110,425,002 visits in 2013. This is the second-highest number of visits since the first complete survey began in 1981. Only in the previous year 2012 was the figure slightly higher (2.1 per cent). The 8,942 special exhibitions organised by German museums contri

  6. Alarming reports of illicit excavations around the world: conference in Berlin seeks ways to curb the illegal trade in antiquities (12.12.2014)

    The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" ended on Friday in Berlin with an urgent appeal to curb illegal excavations and the associated systematic destruction of cultural treasures from human history worldwide. Speakers from all over the world

  7. International conference "Cultural property in danger: looted excavations and illegal trade" begins at the Federal Foreign Office (10.12.2014)

    The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" begins this Thursday at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. The two-day meeting of experts from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, Mexico, Greece and Germany is being organised by the Prussian Cu

  8. Bernhard Weisser appointed new director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin (05.12.2014)

    Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser will become Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage on 1 June 2015. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foundation Board today. Weisser has been acting Director of the Coin Cabinet since the end of Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge

  9. 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

  10. Dr des. Andrea Schlosser receives Ernst Waldschmidt Prize of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation / Award honours outstanding academic achievements in the field of Indology (02.12.2014)

    Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a