Major show at the Museum für Völkerkunde includes loans from current Oba

The painting will be loaned by Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico as it refurbishes its gallery, along with Burne-Jones' Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon

After it was determined that other means of removal might pose risk to the sculptures, being lifted by air appeared the safest option

UK courts ruled that Iran presented insufficient evidence to warrant the antiquities' reacquisition

The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm

But scholars say they are likely to have been looted from Iraq

The London museum has turned down two previous requests for restitution

José Berardo has bought eight large sculptures from the Cass Sculpture Foundation to display outside Parliament in Lisbon

The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft spoke at the British Library (BL) in January at the glitzy launch of Windows Vista, his company’s new operating system

Based on its belief that the Sevso silver rightfully belongs to Hungary, the Hungarian government is seeking an out-of-court settlement with Lord Northampton

The Blue Rigi has been sold to an overseas collector, and after last year's loss of the Dark Rigi the pressure is on

Unesco has published a record of the 1,600 objects acquired by the institution between 1931 and 1985

Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota says no, but the director of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie, among others, believes it is

Last month we reported that a Nazi picture in the London gallery was taken by British soldiers at the end of World War II. We have now discovered that other works of art were also removed

1815 Wandsworth villa with unique wooden fretwork interior

We uncover the remarkable story of how a US war reporter governed Hitler’s mountain retreat for a day and took control of Reichsmarschall Göring’s collection of stolen art

William Etty painting recovered a week after theft

The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time

Nine Dutch and Flemish 17th-century works will go to Vienna Museum

The complex is expected to attract 4m visitors a year by the end of the decade

The painting was taken from Germany at the end of World War II

Publishers will also be able to download images directly from the website

The vast collection of sculptural works removed on the outbreak of World War II are now back on view in the newly-restored building

The V&A could not raise the money to keep it running

Last month the auction house told us it would not sell the hoard, but now it says it might

Meeting between museum directors results in increased flexibility whilst borrowing pictures outside the 1900 division

The arrangement may be the first step in diffusing the animosity brought about by the Elgin marbles, although a request for their return is expected

Will be shown in Surreal Things exhibition next year

Why was The Dark Rigi sold privately, when a public sale would have given valuable tax breaks?

Scholars, curators, dealers and collectors have been invited to the private exhibition of the treasure known for its astonishing provenance