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  1. 42 finalists for the competition to realise the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum (16.06.2016)

    Competition documents to be sent out soon - Grütters: Design must be convincing in terms of urban planning and function - Parzinger: A lot of creativity and expertise for art - Submissions in mid-September The realisation competition for the planned Museum of the 20th Century of the National Gallery

  2. Young Musicians' Prize - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition 2008 has been decided (12.01.2008)

    The decision for the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize 2008 was made today. In a two-day competition, the best students from Germany's music academies once again competed for first place in two musical subjects, which change every year. In the piano quartet category, the Orion Quartet from the Folkw

  3. Construction progress at the Neues Museum (16.03.2006)

    Construction work on the Neues Museum, the war-damaged building by August Stüler (begun as the second building on Museum Island in 1843 and opened in 1859), which has survived as a ruin, is progressing rapidly in line with the plans of architect David Chipperfield. Parts of the building were complet

  4. Lost Etruscan warrior statuette returned to the Collection of Classical Antiquities (28.02.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered a valuable Etruscan bronze statuette that was thought to have been lost since the Second World War. The depiction of a spear-throwing man with a helmet, which had been part of the antiquities collection since 1869, was recently identified in th

  5. Federal government funds Arab-German research cooperation with an additional 3.3 million euros (13.11.2018)

    Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with a

  6. Federal government funds Arab-German research cooperation with 15 million euros until 2025 (30.01.2020)

    Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with

  7. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2022 in the subjects of piano and composition from 12 to 16 January 2022 (20.12.2021)

    At the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2022, the best students in the subjects of piano and composition will compete for the prizes of Germany's oldest competition for young talent in classical music. The musicians will present their skills to the top-class jury in Berlin from 12

  8. Pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (18.01.2022)

    From 20 to 23 January 2022, vaccinations will take place in the foyer of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Kulturforum. Vaccination protects - including culture. That's why the SPK and Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH will be setting up a pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (Matthäikirchplatz

  9. The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2025 in the violin and piano trio categories (21.01.2025)

    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2025 ended with a spectacular final concert at the Konzerthaus Berlin on Sunday evening. This year, the competition was held in the violin and piano trio categories. In the final round of the solo category and the final prizewinners' concert, th

  10. "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys will be presented in Berlin in future - as a new permanent loan from Erich Marx to the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (24.02.2015)

    The world-famous environment "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys, which is considered one of his key works, is coming to Berlin. The collector Erich Marx is donating the work to the collection of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a permanent loan. The complex spatial