German police said Tuesday they have arrested
one of two fugitive twin brothers from the so-called Remmo clan wanted over
their suspected role in snatching priceless jewels from a museum in the city
of Dresden.
German police on Tuesday arrested three
suspects over a spectacular heist a year ago in which more than a dozen
diamond-encrusted items were snatched from a state museum in Dresden.
Vandals have damaged more than 70 artworks and artifacts at some of Berlin's most renowned museums, police said Wednesday, in a targeted attack kept quiet by authorities for more than two weeks.
Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century. As an exhibition in Berlin pays tribute to her life and work, we delved into her past.
Investigators in Germany on Thursday offered a half-a-million-euro reward for information about the spectacular heist in which robbers snatched priceless diamonds from a state museum in Dresden.
A 49-carat diamond which analysts estimate to be worth up to $12 million was among over a dozen jewel-encrusted items snatched from a German state museum in a spectacular heist, the museum confirmed Wednesday.
On Monday, thieves broke into Dresden's Green Vault in the early morning. Watch the incident, described as one of the biggest museum heists of all time, caught on CCTV footage.
A German state museum with one of the biggest collection of baroque treasures in Europe has been raided by thieves, police said Monday, with media estimates of losses of up to a billion euros.
After 20 years in the works, the James Simon Gallery, which pays homage to the Jewish patron of Berlin museums, is getting ready to launch in the capital this weekend.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take down two paintings by Emil Nolde from her office walls has sparked a heated German debate as an exhibition on the Expressionist painter and his links to the Nazis opened in Berlin.
A German museum handed over the remains of an Aboriginal ancestral king to Australia Tuesday in the first of three such ceremonies across Germany this month in what Canberra called a record return.
Four Berlin men who went on trial Thursday denied involvement in the spectacular museum theft of a giant commemorative gold coin called the "Big Maple Leaf" and valued at €3.75 million.
Four Berlin men go on trial Thursday charged over the spectacular museum theft of a giant commemorative gold coin called the "Big Maple Leaf" and valued at €3.75 million.
A Berlin museum on Monday said it had formally
restituted a 15th century religious wooden sculpture to the heirs of former
owners, a Jewish couple who fled the Nazi regime.
Few issues are as controversial in Germany today as immigration. Why do foreigners come here? Why do they leave? Questions like these can be explored soon at a museum which has no exhibition rooms.
The fossilised bones of what's thought to be the largest pterodactyl ever found went on display on Friday in a museum in Bavaria. Nicknamed 'Dracula,' the remains of the monster flying reptile were discovered in Transylvania.
Visited all of the usual tourist hot spots and now looking for something a little more niche? Take a look through our list of the quirkiest museums Germany has to offer.
The secret service in Bavaria have been called in to deal with a most unusual case - the suspicion that Scientologists have too much power in one of Munich's most famous state art galleries.
A museum in Bonn is considering adding the truck used in the Berlin terrorist attack to its collection, joining other historical objects relating to terrorism.
With the Berlin Natural History Museum preparing to display Europe's first ever Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton this week, The Local spoke to Prof. Johannes Vogel, museum director, to find out what makes Tristan the T-Rex so important.
