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  1. Museum Island Berlin (22.05.2025)

    Celebrating a world star: 200 years of Museum Island Berlin - The big island festival from 30 May to 1 June 2025 Lots on offer for free and outdoors - With the island day ticket for 14 euros to all museums - Almost 70 free guided tours - Kolonnadenbar opens for the island festival - Friends and part

  2. ILLICID project investigates illegal trade in cultural property in Germany (10.04.2015)

    The kick-off meeting for the ILLICID research project took place today at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin with international participation. Over the next three years, ILLICID will use dark field research to gather information on the illegal trade in cultural artefacts in Germany.

  3. A missal from Novgorod returns to Russia (16.11.2015)

    Church Slavonic print from the 17th century was identified by provenance researchers at the State Library as a war loss from the Novgorod Museum - Parzinger hands over the work to his Russian colleagues at today's festive event to mark "10 Years of German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (DRMD) and underlin

  4. SPK - The magazine shows the new centre of Berlin (20.06.2018)

    Humboldt Forum, James-Simon-Galerie, the interim building for the Pergamon Museum, Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, debates about the Bauakademie: the centre of Berlin is changing. A new magazine looks at the present and future of the historically evolved centre. Under the new title "SPK - Das Mag

  5. Haus Bastian on Berlin's Museum Island is being officially handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today. From the summer, forward-looking educational concepts of the National Museums in Berlin will be developed and trialled there. (12.03.2019)

    During the ceremonial handover of the keys, Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Director General Michael Eissenhauer thanked Céline, Heiner and Aeneas Bastian for their extraordinarily generous gift. The building on Kupfergraben, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has been dedicated t

  6. The photojournalistic work of Abisag Tüllmann online (07.10.2020)

    bpk picture agency launches new website on Abisag Tüllmann's photojournalistic work - 10,000 digital views of original prints, backsheets, contact sheets, colour slides and documents from 40 years To mark the 85th birthday of photographer Abisag Tüllmann (1935-1996), the bpk picture agency is launch

  7. Rethinking Conceptualism: Avant-Garde, Activism and Politics in Latin American Art (1960s-1980s) (25.02.2021)

    Symposium on Latin American conceptual art from the 1960s to the 1980s: eight international online discussions from 10 March - supporting programme with exhibition and workshops at the Instituto Cervantes Berlin A symposium by independent curator Katerina Valdivia Bruch, in collaboration with the Ib

  8. Museums and exhibition centres on course for consolidation: visitors are back (19.12.2023)

    Institute for Museum Research publishes visitor figures for museums and exhibition centres in Germany in 2022: 81.4 million visits - around twice as many as in the previous year The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 81,372,077 visits in 2022. This is around twice as many as in

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes 384 books from the Berlin State Library to the Potsdam St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" (23.06.2016)

    Today, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, handed over 384 volumes from the former library of the Masonic Lodge to Matthias Bohn, a member of the board of the St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" in Potsdam. The books were identified

  10. Haus Bastian will expand Berlin's Museum Island in future: the donation agreement has been signed (28.09.2017)

    The Bastian family will hand over the gallery building designed by David Chipperfield at Kupfergraben 10 to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation next year. It will be used in future as a centre for cultural education and will bear the name "Haus Bastian der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußi