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  1. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation mourns the death of Wolf-Dieter Dube (10.09.2015)

    Long-standing Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passes away at the age of 81 - Parzinger: architect of the museum landscape in reunified Berlin Wolf-Dieter Dube, the long-serving Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, has died. He died in Berlin on Wednesday at the age

  2. The future of Berlin's Kulturforum begins: SPK launches ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century (03.09.2015)

    New museum complex will house the important holdings of the Nationalgalerie - ideas competition to deliver architectural concept and submit proposals for urban planning organisation The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is launching one of its most important new building projects. Over the next

  3. ATTENTION: NEW LOCATION FOR PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY ON 3 SEPTEMBER 2015 (02.09.2015)

    The press conference on the launch of the ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century on 3 September 2015 at 10 a.m. will take place NOT in the foyer of the Kulturforum but in the Curt-Sachs-Saal of the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage Tiergartenstraße 1 entranc

  4. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and National Museums in Berlin with welcome programme for refugees (01.10.2015)

    Kuratorium Preussischer Kulturbesitz supports guided tour and workshop programme for children, families and adults. The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation invite refugees in Berlin to familiarise themselves with selected museums and offer free guided tours and wo

  5. Berlin: City of the Future - City of Knowledge Discussion event in the Year of Science 2015 - City of the Future (20.10.2015)

    With its numerous scientific and cultural institutions, Berlin sets the standard for new developments in the digital world. Modern information and communication technologies, embedded systems and the "Internet of Things" are opening up new opportunities for Berlin as a "city of the future". As part

  6. Visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres rose again in 2014 (16.12.2015)

    German museums and exhibition centres recorded a total of almost 118 million visits in 2014, almost 3 million more than in the previous year. These figures were published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin and the German Museums Association. They have been conduct

  7. Refugees as guides on Berlin's Museum Island Staatliche Museen zu Berlin der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Deutsches Historisches Museum launch "Multaka: Treffpunkt Museum" pilot project (10.12.2015)

    A total of 19 refugees from Syria and Iraq are being trained as museum guides so that they can lead compatriots through the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the German Historical Museum in their native language. The title of the project is programmatic: "Multaka" means "meeting point" in Arabic

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns historical board game to the Dresden State Art Collections (05.12.2015)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a historical Tric-Trac game to the Dresden State Art Collections. The piece was one of the artefacts that were relocated to the USSR during the war and returned to the GDR in 1958. At the time, it was mistakenly given to the East Berlin Mus

  9. En vogue: "Notturno" chamber concert at the Kunstgewerbemuseum on 27 November Works by Nielsen and Glasunow at the House of Art, Fashion and Design (24.11.2015)

    On 27 November, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will open the sixth season of their joint chamber concert series "Notturno" at the Museum of Decorative Arts. The delightful combination of a night-time concert with musicians from the DSO and a gu

  10. 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