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  1. Contract signed: Tehran Modernism comes to Berlin in December (12.05.2016)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation signs contract with Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art / Parzinger thanks Minister of State for Culture, Federal Foreign Office, Ministry of Finance and Bundestag / Steinmeier: Dialogue with Iranian society / Grütters: Spectacular insights / Kruse: Enriching live

  2. ZEDIKUM digitisation project on Berlin's Museum Island: archaeological objects in 3D (19.05.2016)

    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

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation finds another fair and equitable solution with the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (20.04.2016)

    Following an initial restitution in 2012, works from the collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (1879 - 1943) were recently identified again at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Prof Glaser, museum director and art collector, lost his position in 1933 due to his Jewish descent and emigrated. The

  4. Museum of the 20th Century: Participation competition for the realisation competition begins (18.04.2016)

    Call for proposals published in the Official Journal of the European Union: We are looking for 15 teams of architects and landscape architects The process for the new construction of the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum is entering the next round. The invitation to tender for the p

  5. Kammermusikalisches Finale: ›Notturno‹-Konzert am 3. Juni im Alten Museum (25.05.2016)

    The DSO's Adamello Quartet plays works by Dutilleux and Mozart The last 'Notturno' chamber concert of this season will take place on 3 June in the Rotunda of the Altes Museum on Museum Island. The Adamello Quartet of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will perform Henri Dutilleux's string quar

  6. Hermann Parzinger on the joint project of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow "Donatello and Renaissance Sculpture" (19.05.2016)

    As part of the long-term cooperation between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, sculptures and fragments from the Italian Renaissance that were part of the Berlin sculpture collection before the war were identified in the Moscow museum in 2015. As a

  7. Parzinger: Museum of European Cultures will be represented with a showcase in the Humboldt Forum (18.07.2016)

    The Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Berlin will be represented with a showcase in the future Humboldt Forum. The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, welcomed the plans of the State of Berlin to seek co-operation with the successful Dahlem

  8. Islam debate: Museums want to help overcome fears (07.07.2016)

    The Museum of Islamic Art of the National Museums in Berlin and the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony want to place the cultural diversity of Islam at the centre of their work - interview in the new SPK magazine with Nanette J. Snoep and Stefan Weber In their work, the Museum of Islamic Art o

  9. SPK has new songs about Germany written: Writers Tanja Dückers, Marica Bodrožić and Jan Koneffke congratulate on the 175th anniversary of the "Song of the Germans" (04.07.2016)

    Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the "Song of the Germans" 175 years ago. What is believed to be the first fair copy of the poem is housed in the Berlin State Library. In its current issue (published on 7 July), SPK Magazine asks what we are actually singing about when we think of Germany in

  10. The new SPK magazine will be published on 7 July and asks about home: a magazine about everything that belongs to it (01.07.2016)

    Why the Berlin collections can provide answers to today's questions - Plus: Udo Kittelmann searches for home in his collections, Eugen Blume deciphers Beuys and Philipp Demandt visits the Zoo of Art once again What is home? A topic that is as hotly debated as Brexit or the outcome of the European Fo