Nightlife and live music venues across the country now have the same legal status as museums and opera houses

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

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

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

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

“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

Germany's plans to return the artefacts are just the beginning of a necessary undoing of the art world's white infrastructure

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

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

Ernst August Sr, Prince of Hanover, claims that his son went behind his back to seize control of his estates

New examinations of John the Baptist wall paintings in Augsburg cathedral date them to more than 1,000 years ago

In a unanimous decision, the government’s advisory commission says it is likely the work was sold under duress

Law change follows refusal by some foundations to restitute property lost due to Nazi persecution

Some galleries received funding in the first package for exhibitions they can’t open in lockdown

As exhibitions are cancelled due to the pandemic, local artists are finding creative ways to show their art—and distract patients

Hamburg’s Kunsthalle to publish photographs of 843 paintings for free research tool

Travel restrictions could derail preparations, making 2022 date impossible, Sabine Schormann says

Initiative by the Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh is supported by Dresden’s state museums

New Berlin arts complex suffers renewed setback in its problem-beset opening plans

The budget for 2021 allocates funding to preserve Berlin museum buildings, renovate the Bayreuth Festival theatre, boost provenance research and grant free admission to the Jewish Museum Berlin

Shops remain open in many countries even as museums are plunged once more into Covid-19 deep-freeze

Gardens of the Babelsberg Palace in Potsdam must be probed for undetonated explosives before further renovations can take place

More than 40 directors sign an open letter to regional governments saying museums should not be included in month-long coronavirus lockdown

Closing German museums would be “a hard blow for the institutions and society,” the country's museums association says

Mies van der Rohe’s steel-and-glass building is undergoing modernisation by David Chipperfield, including new air-conditioning, security, lighting and visitor facilities

The complaint also demands compensation for four further works by Mondrian no longer at the Krefeld museum

Sixty-three objects were sprayed with an oily liquid on 3 October at the Pergamon, Neues Museum and Alte Nationalgalerie

New exhibition reveals 22 falsely attributed works discovered in German museum's collection

Missing for 75 years, the large marble head, one of the artist's best-known works, was uncovered by chance during construction work at Kunsthaus Dahlem