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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will return nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. The Board of Trustees today approved a corresponding proposal by the President. The artefacts are grave goods from Na

Museums in Germany reported a total of 111,877,085 visits in 2016. Compared to 2015, the number of visits is therefore 2,546,107 (-2.2%) lower than in the previous year (2015: 114,423,192 visits). German museums reported a total of 8,546 special exhibitions. The analyses of museum attendance figures

The concerts of the competition, which will be held in the piano and composition categories in 2018, will take place on 20 and 21 January 2018. The prizewinners will perform with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under the direction of Corinna Niemeyer at the end of the competition. Around 60 students

15,000 visitors last Saturday on the Museum Island and at the Kulturforum The day of action "On the way to the Humboldt Forum", which the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin organised last Saturday on Museum Island and at the Kulturforum, was a complete success.

A quartet from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will kick off the 'Notturno' nightly chamber concerts at the Neues Museum on Museum Island on 17 November. The unusual ensemble, consisting of Olga Polonsky (violin), Stephan Mörth (clarinet), Sara Minemoto (cello) and Jonathan Aner (piano), wi

Berlin. The first phase of the basic refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie, which included extensive dismantling of original building components, has been successfully completed. A central project phase has now been reached, which includes the extensive refurbishment of the reinforced concrete w

The book "Kunst durch Kredit" (De Gruyter, 2017) by Lynn Rother examines the purchase of around 4,400 works of art owned by Dresdner Bank by the State of Prussia for the Berlin museums in 1935 from the perspective of art and banking history. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) points out

Yesterday evening saw the spectacular conclusion of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2018 ended yesterday evening. it was held in the subjects of piano and composition. It was performed by the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under the direction of Corinna Niemeyer. This year's priz

The construction site of the James-Simon-Galerie on Museum Island opens up new perspectives Berlin. Since the topping-out ceremony in April 2016, the James-Simon-Galerie has been visibly taking shape as the central entrance building to Berlin's Museum Island, both from the outside and the inside. Hi

The public competitions of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition, which will be held this year in the subjects of piano and composition, will begin on 17 January 2018. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conducted by Corinna Niemeyer, has been secured as a partner for both the piano fi