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"Lepsius - the German expedition to the Nile" - A presentation by the National Museums in Berlin at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (30.10.2006)

The Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, together with the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage in cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, are opening the exhibition "Lepsius - the German Expedition to the Nile" tomor

Open, diverse, cosmopolitan: Herzog & de Meuron present the revised plans for the National Gallery's Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum (09.10.2018)

With the Museum of the 20th Century, a building is being erected at the Kulturforum that will develop great charisma and at the same time fulfil the complex museum tasks to a high degree. The architecture that will be created in the coming years will be even more open to its surroundings and will fo

Foundation stone laid for the Central Reading Room of the Berlin State Library (24.04.2006)

The foundation stone for the central reading room of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden is being laid today in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and State Secretary Lütke Daldrup, who is standing in for the Federal Minister of Building Wolfgang Tiefensee. The new bui

Composer Edwin Geist's manuscripts returned to his heirs - on loan to the Berlin State Library (17.11.2008)

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned ten autograph manuscripts from the estate of the composer and music writer Edwin Geist to his heirs. At the same time, an open-ended loan agreement was concluded so that the manuscripts will remain in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußisch

Mourning for Edmund de Unger - internationally renowned collector of Islamic art (15.02.2011)

Edmund de Unger, whose private collection in the field of Islamic art, known internationally as the Keir Collection, achieved worldwide significance, died on 25 January 2011 in Ham near London at the age of 92. Edmund de Unger was laid to rest today in Richmond / London with great sympathy from inte

Museum of the 20th Century: Parzinger appoints advisory board (29.11.2017)

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has set up an advisory committee to support the planning of the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum in Berlin - in agreement with the Chair of the Foundation Council, Minister of State Monika Grütters. This goes back to a suggestion made by t

Agreement to the Sphinx of Hattusha (13.05.2011)

The German-Turkish expert talks on the Hittite Sphinx were concluded today in Berlin. It has been agreed that the fragmentary sculpture, which is over three thousand years old and has been in the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island since 1934, will be handed over to Turkey as a gesture of Germ

David Chipperfield Architects commissioned with the refurbishment of the New National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin (29.03.2012)

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recently commissioned the office of British architect David Chipperfield to plan the complete refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum. The famous building by Mies van der Rohe needs to be extensively renovated, from the façade to the

'Notturno' at the Alte Nationalgalerie on 01.02. A trio of the DSO plays works by Haydn, Kozeluch and Weber (23.01.2019)

An ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) presents itself with an unusual trio line-up at the second 'Notturno' evening of the season on 1 February. Works for transverse flute, violoncello and fortepiano by Haydn, Kozeluch and Weber are on the programme in the Deutsch-Römer-Saa

Antiquities return (15.07.2019)

Dresden and Berlin antiquities collections discover pieces from each other's collections - foreign property exchanged In recent years, the clarification of war losses and objects held in the collections as foreign property has been the subject of research projects at the antiquities collections in B

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