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  1. The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin (06.09.2016)

    From 4 December 2016, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will be offering an insight into the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) in the Gemäldegalerie. The collection is unique in its composition and history: not only does it have one of the largest holdi

  2. Tickets for the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2017 go on sale (13.12.2016)

    The concerts of the competition, which will be held for the first time in 2017 under the under the artistic direction of Sebastian Nordmann, will take place on 20 and 22 January 2017. The winners will perform will perform with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig under the direction of Róbert F

  3. Dahlem and the Humboldt Forum: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and National Museums in Berlin publish the magazine "Sammlungswelten" (Worlds of Collections) (16.12.2016)

    Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz supports the magazine, which will be included in the next few days in the magazines "Cicero" and "Monopol" and in January also in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin are publishing a magaz

  4. Ulrike Höroldt takes over the management of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage (13.12.2016)

    In July 2017, Prof Dr Jürgen Kloosterhuis will retire from his position as Director of the Prussian Secret State Archives after more than 20 years. He will be succeeded by Prof Dr Ulrike Höroldt, who currently heads the State Archives of Saxony-Anhalt. This was decided unanimously yesterday by the B

  5. German museums and exhibition centres once again very well attended in 2015 - Total number of visits to museums increased by 2.2 per cent year-on-year to 114,423,192 - A total of 9,025 special exhibitions in German museums (19.12.2016)

    The visitor figures for museums are published in the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition centres in the Federal Republic of Germany. This has been published annually since 1981 by the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin Prussian Cultural Heritage in co-op

  6. Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio on five evenings in the Gemäldegalerie (08.12.2016)

    A very special Christmas experience: in five concerts between 25 December 2016 and 6 January 2017, the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin presents Bach's Christmas Oratorio in dialogue with paintings from its collection and works of modern music. The six cantatas of the Christmas Orator

  7. 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

  8. Agreement between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the heirs of the Mosse family on sculpture confiscated as a result of persecution (01.12.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned the sculpture "Susanna" by Reinhold Begas to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The work will initially remain on loan to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It is currently on display in the rotunda on the second exhibition floor of the Alte N

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation cancels Tehran exhibition (27.12.2016)

    Parzinger: Iran still not granting export licence for artworks - SPK committed to cultural dialogue The planned exhibition "The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin" at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will now not be able to take place as planned. As the President of the Prus

  10. Victoria of Calvatone from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, believed lost, rediscovered in St Petersburg (28.12.2016)

    The sculpture "Victoria of Calvatone" from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, which had been missing since the end of the war and was on display in the Altes Museum on Berlin's Museum Island until 1939, has resurfaced in Russia in the course of scientific research. This emerges from a r