The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (DCAA) on Tuesday announced that three internationally-renowned museums, will establish a physical presence at ‘The Universal Museums’ project in Dubai.

The three museums -  the Berlin State Museums, Bavarian State Collections of Paintings in Munich and Saxonian State Museums and Art Collections in Dresden - will work alongside the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority to implement various joint initiatives, including exhibitions and conferences related to the fine arts and world cultures.

The museums will also work to promote exchange of expertise in scientific and restoration work and education programmes, displaying rare and contemporary works of art from around the world.

'The Universal Museums’ project was launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE vice president and prime minister and Dubai ruler, recently.

Dr Omar Bin Sulaiman, DCAA managing director said three of the world’s leading museums will establish a physical presence in Dubai; a partnership that marks the first time collaboration between these iconic institutions.

The German Federal Museums in Berlin (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) comprise one of the largest museum complexes in the world.

Encompassing sixteen museums with numerous branches at different sites in Berlin and in Germany, three research institutes and the biggest plaster cast workshop worldwide, they constitute a Universal Museum of Art from its beginnings to the present day.

The unique collections of the Federal Museums in Berlin embrace the areas of European, Islamic, Asian, African and American art, archaeology, and ethnology.

Since the re-unification of the divided German nation in 1990, the Federal Museum in Berlin is carrying out a masterplan for in-depth reorganisation and an ambitious extension of the current locations.

In 1999, the Unesco awarded the Museum Island Berlin (Museumsinsel Berlin) - the core and the jewel of the German capital and its museum’s landscape - the status World Heritage Site with its world famous highlights as the coloured bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, the procession road from Babylon and the Altar of Pergamon.

Dr Peter Klaus Schuster, director general of the Federal Museums in Berlin, said, “The Federal Museums in Berlin is honoured to generate together with the museums in Dresden and Munich a comprehensive cosmos of the arts with our new partner, the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority.

Dr. Reinhold Baumstark, director general of Bavarian State Collections of Paintings, said: “Looking back over almost five hundred years of collecting in Bavaria it will be exciting to take part in helping shape Dubai into a major centre for the art of the world.'

The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Saxonian State Museums & Art Collections in Dresden) are among the most important, oldest museums and existing treasures, embodying a history of over 450 years.

Comprising 11 museum institutions, they offer a thematic diversity that is unparalleled anywhere in the world.-TradeArabia News Service