The opulent Palais Oppenheim in Cologne will host exhibitions and sales from September. Sotheby's says move is due to growing client base in country, not Brexit

Spanish police say they used the ID-art programme to successfully spot stolen Roman coins worth €200,000

The five figures of Hindu gods once adorned a gilded temple gateway in a Unesco world heritage site

New report provides guidelines for the return of artefacts to Africa, where Belgium controlled territory that was 80 times its size

The Nebra Sky disc, the oldest surviving representation of the cosmos, will be one of the star artefacts in an exhibition exploring Unětice culture and its far reaching links

Sculpture is now on show at the Semperbau in Dresden

The funding, available for small events from 1 July, will also include cancellation insurance for large events planned from September

New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution

The new resource provides images and data on 90,000 coins

Grants are available for institutions with individual Benin artefacts or small collections

“We are facing up to our historical and moral responsibility”, says culture minister Monika Grütters

Around 160 institutions hold looted Benin artefacts, but how many are prepared to give them back? We asked museums in five countries for their position on restitution

With institutions across the globe rethinking their views on restitution, the African country’s focus is now on making a home for its heritage

As Israel and Denmark introduce Covid-19 status certificates, institutions are concerned that government schemes may keep visitors away

“There will be some protests,” predicts the Swiss collector ahead of a Kunstmuseum Bern show of works from both sides of the Korean border

Measures to counter the third wave of the pandemic force museums in high-incidence areas to close

The collection of 18th-century porcelain was previously exhibited in Dutch museums

The agreement overturns the Restitution Committee's 2013 rejection of the claim, which argued the painting was worth more to the museum than the heirs

As restitution momentum builds, director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art says it could lead discussions for the return of looted Benin objects in US museum collections

The exhibition will include around half of Berlin’s collection of Benin bronzes as Germany lays groundwork to return them to Nigeria

The decision on whether to return the painting, which hangs in Dusseldorf’s Kunstpalast, will be made by the city assembly in April

Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray

Monika Grütters says she will meet museum directors and trustees next month

The sculpture of an oba’s head was “acquired in a way that we now consider to have been extremely immoral,” the university says

“There is simply no moral ground for the confiscation of African artefacts in Western museums,” says the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe

Exhibition at Staatsgalerie revisits the artist's curated opening of the museum's new building, while 20 other institutions are planning shows on the artist

The head of the German foreign ministry’s culture department visited Nigeria last week for discussions with the Edo State Governor

Some countries are operating a system based on regional coronavirus case numbers while others have gone into full lockdown

Loan of over 100 works to future museum of Modern art encompasses Richter’s Birkenau series, the fruit of a decades-long quest for an artistic response to the Holocaust

Opening next month, the new space will include a sculpture garden on a roof terrace