The artefact will be the focus of a joint exhibition with the Halle Museum of Prehistory

Police has raided seven premises in connection with the investigation

The project, which is to be designed with participation from children and young people, will be supported by the Goethe Institute

An open letter from scholars and curators, including Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr, demands greater transparency on collections

Sylvain Bellenger is reappointed in Capodimonte, Cristiana Collu remains at Rome Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna

The work, previously unknown to scholars, was until now in a private ducal collection

Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government

Move comes just one month before the German art historian was due to take the reins of the prestigious museum

Splendid royal state apartments of Augustus the Strong are opening to visitors again after a lavish reconstruction

Textile-works showing Nazi prison camps and Mussolini with a spear through his head will feature in first German survey of Swedish artist

The Danish-Icelandic artist has long been addressing environmental issues in his work

But return of the objects permanently to Namibia is not the immediate goal, says Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Unveiled earlier this month, Klaus Littmann's tree installation is Austria's biggest ever public work of art

New estimate puts potential cost at €450m versus previous estimate of €200m

Researchers at the Landesmuseum in Halle found fragments of paint on the ancient wooden object

Activist was demonstrating in support of workers' rights in the face of cost-cutting at the museum

From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots

Culture minister Monika Grütters enlists international experts to help create a central institution but critics question necessity and feasibility

Museum celebrates the German design school in the city most closely associated with founder Walter Gropius

The show called Design of the Third Reich features the Volkswagen Beetle and Riefenstahl’s films

Demands by the emperor's great-great grandson for the return of thousands of works from two German states threatens the future of at least two museums

A week-long festival for the 30th anniversary includes a banner of messages floating near the Brandenburg Gate

The museum director, who manages five Berlin museums in his current role, will not renew his contract which expires in October 2020

Open letter describes the Garrison Church, damaged in the Second World War, as the symbol of an “unholy alliance” between church, military, and state

For first time, advisory team stipulates that work must not be sold for ten years in case evidence emerges that contradicts its ruling

Announcement comes after the German artist turned down proposals for his own museum in Cologne

The painting, long the subject of an attribution dispute, is now at the centre of a legal conflict over ownership

Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig looks at how East German artists responded to tumultuous times

An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War

Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden is home to the philanthropist's collection of around 1,000 works