The UN body is monitoring heritage sites by satellite and plans a meeting with Ukrainian museum directors to safeguard collections

German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has withdrawn as patron of “Diversity United”

Statement from leading art world figures calls for a ban on Russian participants in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta

Semjon H.N. Semjon has occupied the property in the city's Mitte district for 21 years and has launched a legal challenge against his landlord

The Albertinum show brings together works from the artist's personal collection with museum loans, including portraits of his wife and children

The privately funded museum is to be led by Ralph Jentsch, the managing director of the Grosz estate

The temporary space’s inaugural exhibition of works by the French artist Bernar Venet opened at the weekend

The Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) has altered 143 work titles since 2020, a decision that has been met with resistance by Germany's right-wing political parties

Das Verborgene Museum is passing on its archive and research mission to the Berlinische Galerie

Ice Skating by Adam van Breen was acquired by Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, and bequeathed to the city of Trier’s museum in 1987

Schultz, who died last month, was arrested in 2019 on suspicion he cheated customers

Committee led by Jonathan Fine of Vienna’s Weltmuseum may pave the way for new legislation

The researchers are investigating the origins of 200 artefacts from Cameroon at Munich’s Museum Fünf Kontinente

Claudia Roth says she will rethink Humboldt Forum and set up a central “green culture” desk in the country

Government museums body takes control of repatriated artefacts after ruler of Benin challenges new trust set up to unify Nigerian claimants

Michael Schultz was arrested in 2019 but died before he could be prosecuted

Though country was not a colonial power, major museums in Vienna have acquisitions of colonial goods

Hermann Gerlinger had been loaning his 1,000 works to museums, but will now sell them through Munich-based auction house Ketterer Kunst

New law will set up expert commission to sift through thousands of objects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa

Ethnological museum in the port city has one of Germany's largest collections of Benin treasures

Zurich museum's displays of the collection of arms dealer Emil Georg Bührle have prompted criticism and a national debate

The museum is “eager to work with the relevant parties in Nigeria” to restitute the sculpture

So far 25 institutions have contributed 8,000 entries; the plan is to expand it and translate it into several languages

A new publication and forthcoming exhibition explore Herlinde Koelbl’s chronicle of the extraordinary 30-year political career of Germany’s first woman chancellor

The women's and gay rights campaigner brings extensive political experience to a position that has gained in stature under the incumbent Monika Grütters

Proposals include eliminating statutes of limitation for claims, creating a central court for cases and strengthening the advisory commission

The two funerary reliefs and the head of a priest were exhibited at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva in 2017

German health minister warns that by the end of the winter, everyone will be “vaccinated, recovered or dead”

An all-party parliamentary group headed by the MP for Streatham aims to “start a discussion and educate people”

The director of the Pitt Rivers Museum says the report is a step in the restitution process