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The plans for the Museum der Moderne at the Kulturforum have been significantly revised and further developed since the ground-breaking ceremony in December 2019. In addition to a large-scale photovoltaic system on the roof, the building has also undergone numerous other changes that will make it mu

Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presented its plans for the coming year. The president and the directors of the five institutions presented new projects and announced outstanding exhibitions and events in 2014. As every year, the annual press conference focussed on the Foundation's

The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin recently hosted an academic discussion entitled "Card catalogues. Untouchable cultural asset, active object of research or substitutable historical tool?". The colloquium demonstrated the academic interest in fundamental research into the history and significance of ca

From 2013, Kurt Masur will be the patron of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition Kurt Masur is the patron of this year's new Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition. Through his work and also through his role as President of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation Lei

As part of a pilot project, the SPK will be researching the provenance of around a thousand human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa from the beginning of October. The project is based at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin and is funded by t

The collection of the Berlin publisher and patron of the arts Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920) comprised thousands of paintings, sculptures, artefacts, books and antiques. Almost one hundred years after the death of the Jewish art collector, more is now known about them than ever before and they have been p

Anniversary concert 10 years of "Notturno" at the Neues Museum on 11 September Chief conductor Robin Ticciati, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and actor Mark Waschke On 11 September, the " Notturno " series will start its new season with a special edition to mark its tenth anniversary. The anniversary

Corona soon had the world in its grip for a year and a half. Everyone's lives had been fundamentally changed by the pandemic. This grip is now loosening. Hygiene measures are gradually being scaled back - and public life is getting back on track. New perspectives are opening up - including for the P

The Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin holds two masks from the indigenous Kogi community from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are objects with a ritual background and still have sacred significance for the Kogi, whose self-designation is "Kágaba". Because of th

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently restituted six books from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria. The volumes come from the Jewish Community's former Cossmann Werner Library, which once comprised more than 10,000 volumes. As pa