BERLIN.- The Museum für Fotografie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin presents Abisag Tüllmann: Photojournalism and Stage Photography on view from June 17th through September 18th, 2011. Abisag Tüllmann is one of the most important German photographers o…
Germany’s Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Refuses to Return Nefertiti Bust to Egypt
BERLIN (REUTERS).- A German foundation rejected Monday an Egyptian request to return the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, a sculpture which draws over one million viewers annually to a Berlin museum. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)…
Egyptian Government Officially Asks Berlin to Return 3,300-Year-Old Bust of Queen Nefertiti
CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s top archaeologist has formally requested the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti that has been in a Berlin museum for decades, the latest move in his eight-year-old campaign to bring home ancient artifacts spirited…
Interview with Beate Salje, Director of Berlin’s Museum of the Ancient Near East
BERLIN.- For everything we’ve ever wanted to know about the Museum of the Ancient Near East… Director Beate Salje has the answers. Who were the most important discoverers and excavators of the archaeological objects in your collection? Well for a sta…
Hitler Exhibit in Berlin’s German Historical Museum Extended Due to Popularity
BERLIN (REUTERS).- Germany’s first postwar exhibition devoted to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has been extended by three weeks due to popular demand, the German Historical Museum (DHM) said on Thursday. Over the past three months, more than 170,000 visit…
Hitler Exhibit in Berlin’s German Historical Museum Extended Due to Popularity
BERLIN (REUTERS).- Germany’s first postwar exhibition devoted to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has been extended by three weeks due to popular demand, the German Historical Museum (DHM) said on Thursday. Over the past three months, more than 170,000 visit…
Bed Down with Reindeer at Carsten Hoeller’s Berlin Show at Museum fuer Gegenwart
BERLIN (AP).- It’s rather stinky and kind of loud, but an exhibit that allows visitors to bed down with 24 golden canaries and a dozen reindeer is one of the most popular ever at a Berlin museum. While the goal of the unusual installation is to acquain…
Bed Down with Reindeer at Carsten Hoeller’s Berlin Show at Museum fuer Gegenwart
BERLIN (AP).- It’s rather stinky and kind of loud, but an exhibit that allows visitors to bed down with 24 golden canaries and a dozen reindeer is one of the most popular ever at a Berlin museum. While the goal of the unusual installation is to acquain…
Exhibition at Berlin’s German Historical Museum Views Hitler’s Hold on Germans
BERLIN (AP).- Bronze Hitler busts of various sizes crown austere pedestals. A red paper lantern with a swastika floats in the air. A tiny toy model of the Fuehrer stands behind a swastika-bedecked lectern. This isn’t an auction of Nazi memorabilia but…
Exhibition at Berlin’s German Historical Museum Views Hitler’s Hold on Germans
BERLIN (AP).- Bronze Hitler busts of various sizes crown austere pedestals. A red paper lantern with a swastika floats in the air. A tiny toy model of the Fuehrer stands behind a swastika-bedecked lectern. This isn’t an auction of Nazi memorabilia but…