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  1. 42 finalists for the competition to realise the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum (16.06.2016)

    Competition documents to be sent out soon - Grütters: Design must be convincing in terms of urban planning and function - Parzinger: A lot of creativity and expertise for art - Submissions in mid-September The realisation competition for the planned Museum of the 20th Century of the National Gallery

  2. Five houses. Ten euros: UNESCO World Heritage Day on 5 June on Berlin's Museum Island (02.06.2016)

    Hermann Parzinger and Michael Eissenhauer invite Berliners and guests of the city to come and take a look! The UNESCO World Heritage Day will take place this Sunday, 5 June 2016, from 10 am to 6 pm on Museum Island Berlin. With a day ticket of ten euros (concessions: five euros), visitors can visit

  3. Off to the Humboldt Forum: Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art present themselves at the Open Construction Site Day this weekend (09.06.2016)

    A palace without an emperor, the flaming Buddha, a mysterious totem pole - stories like these will be told at the Humboldt Forum in future. This coming weekend, the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin will once again take visitors on a journey into the f

  4. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over Meyerheim painting to the German Historical Museum (30.05.2016)

    The painting "Dragoner-Regiment von Borke Nr 7" (1864) by Friedrich Wilhelm Meyerheim was kept in the Nationalgalerie as so-called foreign property and was also published as such. In the course of research by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), it has now been clearly identified as belonging to

  5. Database, capacity building, dark field research: how the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation supports the protection of cultural property in Syria (01.06.2016)

    On the occasion of the International Meeting of Experts on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Syria, which is taking place from 2 to 4 June 2016 at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "If one day the guns fall s

  6. Website for new museum building at the Kulturforum online: www.nationalgalerie20.de (10.08.2016)

    The new website for the new museum building at the Kulturforum has been online since today. It provides information about the contents of the future museum and the competition procedure for the new building. It also presents the Kulturforum as a place of culture and science. The website will accompa

  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