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  1. Herzog & de Meuron build the new museum "Neue Nationalgalerie - Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts" at Berlin's Kulturforum (27.10.2016)

    Realisation competition successfully completed: Jury chaired by Arno Lederer awards a second and a third prize as well as four commendations in addition to the first prize for the Basel office - Grütters: Grandiose design - Parzinger: This design completely rethinks museum architecture and will make

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Smithsonian Institution launch German-American exchange programme on provenance research (18.10.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI, Washington, USA), two of the world's largest museum complexes and research institutions, are launching a project to systematically network German and American provenance researchers. The three-year "German-American

  3. On yesterday's ARD programme "FAKT" about human remains from the former colony of German East Africa / Parzinger does not rule out returns (23.11.2016)

    Yesterday's programme FAKT (ARD, 21.45 hrs) reported on allegedly new finds of human skulls from the colonial era, including in an alleged in a supposed "secret depot" of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Cultural Heritage Foundation. In 2014 and 2015, the SPK issued several press releases

  4. After jury decision on the Museum of the 20th Century: Collector couple Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch declare reservations about donation to the state of Berlin cancelled (30.11.2016)

    Parzinger: Day of joy and appreciation for the Nationalgalerie / Celebration with Minister of State for Culture Grütters and Governing Mayor Müller at the Villa von der Heydt Now that it has been decided who will build the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum, the collector couple Ulla

  5. Urgently needed funds approved: Parzinger thanks the Budget Committee and Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters (14.11.2016)

    State Library's acquisition budget increases - Pergamon Museum construction schedule secured - Plaster moulding shop to be expanded - Museum 4.0 launched At the end of last week, the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved additional funding for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. T

  6. Federal government funds "Museum 4.0" pilot project (15.11.2016)

    At the end of last week, the Bundestag's Budget Committee approved funding for the "Museum 4.0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future" project. The project, which is being led by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, also involves the Deutsche Aus-wandererhaus Bremerhaven, the Deutsc

  7. SPK website revised: Focus on news and thematic dossiers (17.11.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has further developed its website www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de and now presents itself online in a more up-to-date way and for the first time with an overview of what is happening throughout the Foundation. A "Newswall" on the homepage, topic dossiers an

  8. 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

  9. Collector Egidio Marzona donates books, editions and posters to the art library for "Encyclopaedia of Art of the 60s and 70s" (14.10.2016)

    Once again, the collector Egidio Marzona has surprised the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin with a major donation. The 115 books and editions, 141 posters and around 1,000 invitation cards are an excellent addition to the Marzona Collection, which was acquired in 2002. Even then, Marzon

  10. Hermann Parzinger on the donation by Heiner Bastian (06.10.2016)

    On the surprising news that the Heiner Bastian family will donate the house Bastian am Kupfergraben to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, waiving any compensation and without conditions, says Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK: "We are really surprised! You don't receive such a generous