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  1. Berlin's "Museum of East Asian Art" and "Museum of Indian Art" to be united in future to form a "Museum of Asian Art" (05.12.2006)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation yesterday approved the merger of the Museums of East Asian Art and Indian Art. In future, they will be run as departments of the new "Museum of Asian Art". Their unification will strengthen the importance of both collections through

  2. Refugees as guides on Berlin's Museum Island Staatliche Museen zu Berlin der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Deutsches Historisches Museum launch "Multaka: Treffpunkt Museum" pilot project (10.12.2015)

    A total of 19 refugees from Syria and Iraq are being trained as museum guides so that they can lead compatriots through the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the German Historical Museum in their native language. The title of the project is programmatic: "Multaka" means "meeting point" in Arabic

  3. German museums and exhibition centres once again very well attended in 2015 - Total number of visits to museums increased by 2.2 per cent year-on-year to 114,423,192 - A total of 9,025 special exhibitions in German museums (19.12.2016)

    The visitor figures for museums are published in the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition centres in the Federal Republic of Germany. This has been published annually since 1981 by the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin Prussian Cultural Heritage in co-op

  4. New appointments to the Board of Trustees: Alexis von Poser becomes Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin (04.07.2019)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, unanimously decided on Tuesday that Dr Alexis von Poser should take over the position of Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art. The Ethnologi

  5. Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin reports: Visitor numbers to museums in Germany remain at a high level in the pre-corona year 2019 (18.01.2021)

    111.6 million visits to German museums in 2019 - trend towards special exhibitions unbroken Special exhibition trend unbroken - Special topic of the 2019 overall statistical survey: Collection holdings and handling collections The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,633,603 v

  6. Crime Scene: Museum – SPK at the Long Night of Museums (20.08.2026)

    This year’s Long Night of Museums is themed ‘Crime in Berlin’. The SPK is taking part with thirteen venues. On Saturday 29 August 2026, Berlin’s museums will take on a criminal theme: under the banner ‘Crime in Berlin’, the Long Night of Museums, running from 6 pm to 2 am, invites visitors to discov

  7. Long-lost gold tablet returns to the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the National Museums in Berlin (04.12.2013)

    The press images in this list can no longer be downloaded. If you are interested in using an image, please send an e-mail to the press office . Press release "Long missing gold tablet returns to the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin" (04.12.2013)

  8. "museum4punkt0" starts: Ideas lab for digital applications in German museums (08.05.2017)

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  9. 200 years of the Museum Island - Museum highlights (25.02.2025)

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  10. Henrietta Lidchi becomes the new director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (11.12.2025)

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