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  1. New perspectives on Catalonia (01.08.2025)

    An approximation by the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (MEK, Museum of European Cultures) and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut as part of the MEK’s 21st European Cultural Days Every summer, the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (external link, opens in a new window) (MEK, Museum of European Cultures) orga

  2. Topping-out ceremony for the Neues Museum: Insight into the "workshop" of reconstruction (21.09.2007)

    Today's topping-out ceremony and the three subsequent open days offer the public the opportunity to gain an impression of the progress of the construction and restoration work that has been underway for four years in the war-damaged Neues Museum. As one of the five buildings on the Museum Island, it

  3. "Art in architecture" for the Berlin State Library (17.12.2009)

    Olaf Metzel (Munich) and Tobias Rehberger (Frankfurt am Main) have won the art-in-architecture competition for the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building. From tomorrow, all submitted designs will be on display in the Potsdamer Straße building. On 20 November 2009, the winners of the

  4. Atlas returned to the Berlin State Library after being lost during the war (12.02.2010)

    A few days ago, the Berlin State Library received back an atlas from the 17th century that had recently been found in the archives of the French Foreign Ministry. The head of the archive, Jean Mendelson, presented the work to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzin

  5. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2016 starts (05.01.2016)

    On 13 January 2016, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in this year's piano, trombone and string quartet categories will begin at Berlin University of the Arts. They are open to the public and admission is free. In the Mendelssohn piano category, the German Pianist Prize, endowed

  6. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Nationalgalerie mourn the loss of Erich Marx (10.09.2020)

    Great collector passes away at the age of 99 - Parzinger: A man of the century - Eissenhauer and Haak: A major influence on the reconstruction of the Nationalgalerie's collection - Knapstein and Jäger: We lose a great friend of art The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums i

  7. Visitor numbers to museums in Germany remain low in the second coronavirus year 2021 (03.01.2023)

    Overall statistical survey by the Institute for Museum Research shows Visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in Germany remained at around a third of the pre-pandemic level in the second year of coronavirus in 2021 The results of the Institute for Museum Research's overall statistical sur

  8. Emanuele Marconi becomes the new director of the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research (18.06.2024)

    Italian musicologist, restorer and curator with international experience in museum work takes over from Conny Restle on 15 July The Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research is getting a new director. The musicologist, restorer and curator Emanuele Marconi will take over fr

  9. Successful interplay of landscape architecture and art - decision of the interdisciplinary competition for outdoor facilities and art in the building of the plaster moulding workshop of the National Museums in Berlin (23.12.2024)

    A Berlin team from the disciplines of landscape architecture and art will design the outdoor areas of the plaster moulding workshop of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SMB) following its basic restoration and extension. With their design, the offices 100Landschaftsarchitektur and studiofutura with t

  10. Love is everything - the SPK gives its all and participates with 17 museums in the Long Night of Museums on 30 August - Ackermann: The public can look forward to many attractions (28.08.2025)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is taking part in the 43rd Long Night of Museums with 17 museums, which starts on 30 August under the motto "Love in Berlin". This year's focus will be on the Museum Island, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary. All the buildings on the "island" are op