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The Institute for Museum Research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz has statistically analysed the visitor figures collected at museums throughout Germany as well as other data for 2006 and published them in a publication. Museums in Germany recorded a total of 102,645,078

A ceremony was held today at the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to prepare the mummified heads (Toi moko) of two tattooed Māori heads for their repatriation to New Zealand. Two toi moko from the Ethnological Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin return to New Zealand. T

The German-American exchange program PREP was established by the SPK and the Smithsonian Institution to foster the formation of networks between provenance researchers in both countries. PREP stands for German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals. The program is gea

Anyone who is objectively involved with the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great effort to disclose their holdings and create transparency. For the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK), the debate on the object biographies in African colle

The Anamyktos Quartet will perform the last "Notturno" chamber concert of the current season on 24 April at the Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Dahlem. With a programme of works by Russian composers, the musicians of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will enter into a d

The German Centre for Digital Cultural Assets in Museums (ZEDIKUM) has firmly established itself on Berlin's Museum Island in the first six months of its existence. The interdisciplinary research and service facility, which is based at the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the National Museums in B

From Constantin Brancusi to Verner Panton, from Genghis Khan to Paul Cassirer, from the discovery of community to heavy material - this is the spectrum of exhibition highlights with which the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library and the State Institute for Music Research hope to attr

Dr Klaas Ruitenbeek will succeed Prof. Dr Willibald Veit, who retired yesterday, as Director of the Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from the beginning of January 2010. Ruitenbeek, who was unanimously chosen by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will expand the Museum Berggruen in Berlin-Charlottenburg in accordance with today's decision by the Foundation Council. The family of Heinz Berggruen, who died in February 2007, intends to expand the holdings of the Museum Berggruen with high-calibre long-t

Work on the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum is now starting on site. The building for the National Museums in Berlin is designed by the celebrated Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Text A number of measures are needed to prepare the area at the Kulturforum for construction work. The