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  1. The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2020 in the subjects of singing and string quartet (21.01.2020)

    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2020 ended yesterday evening with a spectacular finale. This year, the competition was held in the fields of singing and string quartet. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin played under the direction of Julien Salemkour. This year's prizewinners are

  2. Let the competitions begin! The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition for Singing and String Quartet starts on 15 January 2020 (15.01.2020)

    On 15 January 2020, the public competitions of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will begin on 15 January 2020. subjects of singing and string quartet. To kick things off 15 January there will also be an espresso concert with the first prize winner of the competition 2019 will t

  3. Visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in Germany stabilised at a high level in 2018 (20.12.2019)

    With around 111.6 million visits, the museums maintained the high level of 2016. The museums that took part in the survey reported around 8,800 special exhibitions, which is almost the same number as the previous year. The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,662,229 visits in

  4. Ground-breaking ceremony for the Museum of the 20th Century (03.12.2019)

    The ground-breaking ceremony for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century took place today in the presence of Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture, and Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin. The event on the construction site of the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Strasse is a milesto

  5. Berlin Egyptian Museum becomes project partner in the establishment of the Akhenaten Museum near Amarna (19.11.2019)

    Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin committed to establishing the Akhenaten Museum in el-Minja - Parzinger signs corresponding memorandum and welcomes support from the Federal Government's Museum Agency Since 2002, the Akhenaten Museum (Akhenaten Museum) has been

  6. More money, more jobs: SPK can also consistently tackle "refurbishment backlog" (18.11.2019)

    The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) is granted 20 new posts for building maintenance on the Foundation's buildings - SPK's building maintenance budget increases to 10.34 million euros The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) has been granted 20 new posts fo

  7. Parzinger: Now the Kulturforum can become the Museum Island of Modernism (14.11.2019)

    Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approves cost plan for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century The cost plan for the Museum of the 20th Century at the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin was approved today at the German Bundestag's budget committee meeting to finalis

  8. On the current debate about the Museum of the 20th Century at the National Gallery at the Kulturforum (30.10.2019)

    In its issue of 30 October 2019, the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reported on the Nationalgalerie's planned 20th century museum at Berlin's Kulturforum. The article "Very, very much space" by Jörg Häntzschel distorts key aspects of the new building. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation corrects some p

  9. National Socialist art theft: Provenance researchers from Germany and America establish network (30.10.2019)

    German/American Provenance Research Exchange Programme (PREP) has come to an end: Transatlantic network has been established The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research in Museums, PREP for short, has come to an end in Washington. Museum experts from 25 German and American institutions speci

  10. GERMAN SALES - a new dimension of transparency (25.10.2019)

    Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Heidelberg University Library and Getty Research Institute put 9000 historical auction catalogues online - a benefit for provenance research and art market research Around 9,000 catalogues published between 1901 and 1945 by more than 390 auction hous