The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century

The descendants of the €200m collection's Jewish former owners had appealed a 2022 regional court ruling

A sculpture by Michelangelo Pistoletto was destroyed by fire in Naples on Wednesday

Visitors who accessed text via QR codes saw collector Emil Georg Bührle described as “a Nazi sympathiser, authoritarian militarist, at the very least a war profiteer and probably a war criminal”

After taking guidance from the community's traditional elders and religious leaders, the Oxford museum presented the "symbolic gift" on the weekend

The director of Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie will succeed Klaus Albrecht Schröder from 2025

The scientific director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna will take charge of one of Europe’s most important museum organisations in 2025

The painting was pulled from a sale in June following reports it was sold under duress in 1936 by Walter Blank, who died in Spain while fleeing Nazi Germany

The fragment, plundered in the 1980s or 1990s, was seized in a criminal case in Geneva

Currently director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Fine succeeds Sabine Haag in 2025

The committee is led by Donnell Deeny, chairman of the UK government’s Spoliation Advisory Committee

Calling out the injustice of colonialism and following it up with "serious debate and concrete actions" is Austria’s responsibility, says culture secretary

Many of the works to be exhibited have never been shown before and were salvaged by his son from Altdorf’s studio

The museum is in contact with the owner, Musée d’Orsay, about reinstalling Le jardin de l’artiste à Giverny in its exhibition

The Heart of Relations is the German artist’s largest solo exhibition so far, with almost 90 works from the past 15 years

Off to Art Basel? From a Picasso harlequin to Jean Tinguely’s clanking sound sculpture, here are some of the masterpieces not to miss in the city’s bountiful museums

View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes will in future be displayed with information about its former owner, Jakob Goldschmidt

The auction house's evening sale on 5 June was the most successful in its history

The recovered items also include a Corinthian bronze helmet and four Roman-Byzantine gold coins

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

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

The museum is seeking a new director to start in January 2024

Taken as a trophy from the bedside of the dead Tipu Sultan in 1799 by British troops, the sword’s high estimate was ₤2m

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

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

New report finds that, unlike journalists, artists are often "in the dark" about the organisations they can turn to when their rights are threatened