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Large parts of the Pergamon Museum will reopen in spring 2027. The Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art will present their highlights in the north wing and central building. While construction work is still underway in some of their rooms, the antique artefacts are alrea

Director headed the five-hall network for twelve years - SPK and SMB regret the move - Parzinger: His work will endure because he has made the Nationalgalerie a global player The Director of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Udo Kittelmann , will not be extending his contract,

Topping-out ceremony on the Museum Island Berlin Berlin. On 3 May, the topping-out ceremony for construction phase A of the basic refurbishment and extension of the Pergamon Museum was celebrated on Berlin's Museum Island. With the construction of a new staircase and the completion of the illuminate

The new information centre on Schlossplatz presents the concepts of the National Museums in Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Central and State Library for the Humboldt Forum. The Humboldt Box is a temporary landmark: with changing exhibitions and events, it accompanies the conce

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

SPK returns books confiscated during the Second World War to the French daily newspaper Le Figaro - Ceremonial handover at the embassy Today at the French Embassy in Berlin, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Achim Bonte, returned 33 books to representatives of the French newspa

Human remains that were in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin were returned to Australia today, 5 December 2024. Together with the Australian Embassy, the Ethnological Museum organised a memorial service for the ancestors, who are now travelling home. They w

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Sabine Thümmler as the future Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Dr Angela Schönberger, who is retiring at the end of February

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

Ceremony at the family seat Schloss Tegel / Parzinger: educational reformer and founding father of the Museum Island To mark the 250th anniversary of Wilhelm von Humboldt's birth, the Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Founding Di