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Following a two-day competition, the winners of the 2007 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize have been announced today: Li-Chun Su from the Berlin University of the Arts in the piano category and the duo Pauline Reguig (violin) and Emilio Peroni (piano) from the Rostock University of Music and Theatre

Celebrating a world star: 200 years of Museum Island Berlin - The big island festival from 30 May to 1 June 2025 Lots on offer for free and outdoors - With the island day ticket for 14 euros to all museums - Almost 70 free guided tours - Kolonnadenbar opens for the island festival - Friends and part

What do the bust of Nefertiti, the Market Gate of Miletus and Caspar David Friedrich's painting "The Lone Tree" have in common? Not only are they all famous crowd-pullers at the National Museums in Berlin, they are also at the centre of a new international piano art festival that Young Euro Classic

The winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship will conduct research at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) on the museum presentation of knowledge and, in close cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN), will also provide new im

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation looks back on a quarter of a century of its reunited collections. Between 1991 and 1992, the libraries, archives and museums brought together what had been divided for four and a half decades. To mark the anniversary, the SPK magazine tells the story of the

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

The lawsuit against the SPK for the return of the Guelph Treasure was allowed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, but dismissed against the Federal Republic of Germany. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will now examine further options. In February 2015, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Trea

Open access to scientific knowledge as a central field of action for the SPK - new Open Science Declaration adopted Open science is not only a key issue in science and research, but also in the cultural sector and in society in general. In addition to Open Access, this also requires Open Data and Op

The 2021 Annual Report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has just been published. SPK President Hermann Parzinger writes in the editorial that the past twelve months have been characterised above all by "a longing for normality". Despite the pandemic-related impositions, many visitors onc

German archaeologists found an umbrella organisation and create a mouthpiece for politicians and the public. The founding meeting of the "German Association for Archaeology" (DVA) took place in Bremen on 4 October 2011 as part of the 7th German Archaeology Congress. Following failed attempts to unit