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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  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