Architect's Modernist masterpiece was “incredibly badly built” and took six years and €140m to restore to its former glory

Government has established €600,000 three-year pilot project called NEXUD to combat illegal trade in antiquities

Other Nazi sculptures seized in 2015 remain with the private collector who fought to keep them

The commission said the work's history touches four families who had been “oppressed, robbed, deported, driven to flee or murdered”

Committee finds that construction projects have reduced cultural value

The gallerist was ill at home in Bad Münstereifel, one of the worst-hit towns

A team from the Cologne City Archive has sent emergency aid to Stolberg

After almost two years of delays, the ambitious museum complex launches its first in-person exhibitions

After weighing postponement, the Kassel exhibition’s shareholders say decision to stick to timetable was “not easy”

From crumbling castles to beach huts and giant chalk drawings on the English coast, there's no need for PCR tests if you live near these local gems

An exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris is currently paying tribute to the Jewish collector

Scientists will study how Soviet-era household objects "made to last 30 or 40 years" can be preserved

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation aims for the first restitutions to Nigeria next year, requests “detailed timetable” for negotiations

Move addresses "investment backlog" for upgrades to cultural sites in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia

A Chinese collector bought the 15th century gold and bronze Ming-dynasty sculpture of the god Vajrabhairava earlier today

Bilateral accord to include projects to conserve, research, and store restituted items

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