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  1. The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2017 (23.01.2017)

    Yesterday evening saw the end of this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition. This year it was held in the violin and piano trio categories and piano trio, and students of 20 different nationalities nationalities took part in the competition

  2. Foundation Board sets course for management positions at the National Museums in Berlin (25.11.2020)

    Directorate of the Gemäldegalerie to be re-advertised - Management of the Nationalgalerie to be divided into three positions - Grütters and Parzinger thank Michael Eissenhauer On 23 November 2020, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Cu

  3. German Bundestag passes new law on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (31.01.2025)

    Parzinger: This is the keystone of our reform / New law to come into force on 1 December 2025 On Friday night (31 January), the German Bundestag passed a new law for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. SPK President Hermann Parzinger commented: "The new SPK Act is a decisive step towards guid

  4. German museums and exhibition centres once again very well attended in 2015 - Total number of visits to museums increased by 2.2 per cent year-on-year to 114,423,192 - A total of 9,025 special exhibitions in German museums (19.12.2016)

    The visitor figures for museums are published in the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition centres in the Federal Republic of Germany. This has been published annually since 1981 by the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin Prussian Cultural Heritage in co-op

  5. Architectural competition for the new depot building of the National Museums in Berlin decided (12.06.2008)

    The Speicherstadt for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Friedrichshagen The architects AV1 Architekten, Kaiserslautern, are the winners of the competition for the new depots and workshops of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. The j

  6. German museums and exhibition centres still very well attended in 2016 despite a slight decline in visitor numbers - total number of museum visits fell by 2.2% year-on-year to 111,877,085 (14.12.2017)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 111,877,085 visits in 2016. Compared to 2015, the number of visits is therefore 2,546,107 (-2.2%) lower than in the previous year (2015: 114,423,192 visits). German museums reported a total of 8,546 special exhibitions. The analyses of museum attendance figures

  7. Wall free for art - new acquisition for the Ethnological Museum (01.03.2019)

    The Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball is designing a wall with a large-scale art installation in the Mesoamerica exhibition room of the Ethnological Museum in the Humboldt Forum. Inspired by indigenous pictorial documents, Mariana Castillo Deball has created a work consisting of numerous clay-f

  8. Visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in Germany stabilised at a high level in 2018 (20.12.2019)

    With around 111.6 million visits, the museums maintained the high level of 2016. The museums that took part in the survey reported around 8,800 special exhibitions, which is almost the same number as the previous year. The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,662,229 visits in

  9. Decision by the Board of Trustees: Klaus Biesenbach becomes Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Museum of the 20th Century (10.09.2021)

    Decision by the Board of Trustees: Klaus Biesenbach becomes Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie and thus the new museum of the 20th century - The Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and long-time MoMA Chief Curator will take up the post on 1 January 2022 - Parzinger:

  10. Personnel changes on the Board of Trustees: Reinhard Altenhöner joins the State Library - Michael Eissenhauer also takes over the Picture Gallery - Contract with Udo Kittelmann extended (25.06.2015)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, today unanimously made far-reaching personnel decisions for the Berlin State Library and the National Museums in Berlin. Reinhard Altenhöner has been appointed Permanent Depu