German museums hold 40,000 artifacts from Cameroon—more than any other museum collection worldwide, including the state collections of Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé—according to a new study presented ...
BERLIN (AP) — Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that had been in German museum collections since the 19th century were handed back at a ceremony Thursday that a community representative ...
The Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg, Germany, focuses on art made by psychiatric patients, mostly between 1840 and 1945.
BERLIN — Germany and Nigeria on Friday signed an agreement paving the way for the return of hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes that were taken from Africa more than 120 years ago — an ...
A German museum has removed a portrait of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Rating: Mostly True (About this rating?) Context: The ...
A new front in German researchers’ inquiries into colonial-era objects opened today, as the German Lost Art Foundation announced that it will grant an additional €1.1 million to museums for provenance ...
As a Berlin museum with Russian trustees commemorates an allied victory over the Soviet Union, it is also negotiating the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. By Catherine Hickley Reporting from ...
Last month, Monika Hauser-Mair, the director of a small state museum in the German town of Rosenheim, received an unlikely call. A local school principal was on the line asking if she might consider ...
Germany has handed over 20 Benin Bronzes from its museums to Nigeria, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday, making it the latest European country to return cultural artifacts to ...
When the Prototyp museum in Hamburg opened in 2008, it was overshadowed by new museums for Mercedes-Benz and Porsche that debuted in Stuttgart at the same time. But Prototyp celebrates an era--the ...
According to the Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin) in Germany, the risk of COVID-19 infection via aerosol particles is far lower in museums than in supermarkets, restaurants, offices and on ...
The collection of the German Hygiene Museum shows that the same debates recur whenever disease breaks out, even if we don’t remember them. By Annalisa Quinn DRESDEN, Germany — In a display case at the ...