Cameroon has set up a restitutions committee to work with the museums

An exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin explores the "secessions" in three key European cities

Following a four-month closure, the Berlin museum reopens today with five exhibitions

The storied institution has opened its archives—parts of which were untouched decades—to artists and historians

Research could lead to restitutions if artefact were found to have been excavated or exported illegally

Two of the men on trial were previously found guilty of stealing a giant gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017

The far-right Alternative for Germany party called for the debate after the oba of Benin was named owner of the returning artefacts, causing confusion

The Cameroonian-born curator is the institution's first Black leader

Climate protection guidelines have been issued to help sector become climate-fit

A painting by Egon Schiele is among those bought back by the institutions from where they were confiscated

German government’s visa admissions programme is abruptly suspended, leaving desperate applicants in limbo

Wilhelm von Schadow’s painting 'The Artist’s Children' was once owned by Max Stern, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s

The painting, Madame Soler, was previously owned by the prominent collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in the 1930s

Opera director Sam Brown finds parallels between the tragic Rusalka at the heart of the Czech composer’s eponymous work and young artist Klára Hosnedlová’s monumental performative sculptures

This account of the theft of a South Seas cultural treasure by German colonists in the late 1800s reveals a series of atrocities

The 2022 edition of the German exhibition became mired in controversy after criticism that some works included antisemitic images

World-famous museums overseen by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be given more autonomy and their own budgets

Statement comes after Berlin state secretary for diversity and anti-discrimination spoke out in favour of restituting the artefacts to their countries of origin

The agreement—signed by the two countries in July—involves the return of 1,100 objects in total

The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum is the latest Western institution to return its collection of artefacts looted from Nigeria in the late-19th century

The German city is hosting the first major European exhibition of her paintings, which are barely known outside her adopted country of Mexico

Munich-based foundation follows other German institutions in quest for transparency, disclosing ownership of 1,200 works acquired since 1933 with over 500 pieces flagged as "former Nazi property"

This edition of the Kassel quinquennial was engulfed by a row over antisemitism and racism that has drawn comment from Germany's senior politicians

Twenty years since its conception and at a cost of around €680m, the new German museum must now follow through on its restitution promises

Protestors from the Letzte Generation group have glued themselves to works by Rubens, Poussin and Cranach

Artists Raed Mutar and Sajjad Abbas protested against the inclusion of Jean-Jacques Lebel's work and have moved their own pieces

A building in Kassel was graffitied with threatening words in what is being considered a politically motivated incident

Bold move by German photographer’s descendant to put archive on the blockchain sparks copyright row

Berlin-based Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation is supporting roles for a one-year period

A group of skulls is being handed over to a Native Hawaiian group during a mission this month to receive dozens of items from German and Austrian museums