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  1. Parzinger: We are not simply switching off Dahlem (09.01.2017)

    Thousands visit the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art last weekend The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, has given a positive assessment of the closing weekend for the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art in Dahlem. Before both museum

  2. Annual press conference 2017 (08.02.2017)

    For the first time outside the Villa von der Heydt: at the 2017 annual press conference at the Altes Museum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presented its plans for the coming year. SPK President and the directors of the five institutions gave an outlook and took stock The Prussian Cultura

  3. Islam debate, Russia, constitutional complaint: Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook 2015 published (31.01.2017)

    In the 51st volume of the yearbook, you can find out, among other things, how museums are challenged by the current debate about immigration and isolation - but also that a red ICE would sound louder than a green one, that we look at our mobile phones an average of 88 times a day, that Goethe alread

  4. The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2017 (23.01.2017)

    Yesterday evening saw the end of this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition. This year it was held in the violin and piano trio categories and piano trio, and students of 20 different nationalities nationalities took part in the competition

  5. SPK supports Europe-wide import regulation for cultural property from non-EU countries - Parzinger: Important instrument against illegal trade (18.01.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation welcomes the European Commission's procedure to create an EU-wide import regulation from non-EU countries. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger explains: "The SPK supports such a further instrument for the sustainable prevention of trade in illegal cultura

  6. Only a few days left until the start of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2017 (10.01.2017)

    On 18 January 2017, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will begin in this year's violin and piano trio categories. The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition lasts three days, with 35 violin students and 17 piano trios competing this year. The competitions start at 10

  7. Integration of refugees: The museums of the SPK say thank you! (10.01.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its museums are taking part in the "Berlin Says Thank You!" campaign day in recognition of the voluntary commitment of Berliners in helping refugees: the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the Musical Instrument Museum are offering free admission and f

  8. Exhibition "Crossroads. The Hohenzollerns and the confessions, 1517 - 1740" in Köpenick Palace (21.03.2017)

    Luther and the princes? The princes and Luther! The Hohenzollerns were among the most powerful imperial princes of the early modern period. How did they react when Luther, Zwingli and Calvin led them to the crossroads and asked the question: What do you believe in? Their decisions had an impact on t

  9. A differentiated view of Iranian modernity (01.03.2017)

    Within just a few years, modern art in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s achieved a rich development. Its protagonists were caught in a tense relationship between connecting with international developments and drawing on centuries-old traditions. On 11 March 2017, at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut

  10. Lost Etruscan warrior statuette returned to the Collection of Classical Antiquities (28.02.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered a valuable Etruscan bronze statuette that was thought to have been lost since the Second World War. The depiction of a spear-throwing man with a helmet, which had been part of the antiquities collection since 1869, was recently identified in th