The new centre is to “include groups of victims who have so far received less attention,” the Bundestag says

The landscape was in the possession of the family of an American soldier who had served in post-war Germany

A pilot project will begin operating in February 2024

Wide-ranging nationwide survey will catalogue artefacts held by monasteries and convents that were collected by missionaries in Africa, Asia and South America

He replaced a painting by Franz von Stuck with a forgery and sold the original

The advisory commission said it sees the current framework as “unsatisfactory” and “in need of an urgent overhaul”

Wood has long been deep in the German psyche, as seen in the work of the country’s master sculptors

Exhibition wants to show the "making of" the nihilist philosopher's personality cult

The spear, digging stick, cudgel and net were brought home by German missionaries nearly 200 years ago

A skull relief carving hailing from the ancient Mayan city of Chichén Itzá has been repatriated

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

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

During their time in Berlin, the two sacred masks were treated with a pesticide that may still be dangerous

The visionary but misunderstood German architect was a proto post-Modernist

According to the art collector data company Larry's List, the burgeoning private museums sector now comprises 446 institutions worldwide, 111 of which have opened since 2016

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

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