Berlin museums might house the iconic
Nefertiti bust, the Ishtar gate of ancient Babylon or Rembrandt masterpieces, but they still trail global counterparts in popularity -- and the coronavirus is making things worse.
The audience being housebound does not necessarily mean the end of live performances. We take a look at creative cultural events across Germany which have migrated online.
Police have received 516 tip-offs following the burglary at the Green Vault in Dresden on November 25th, amid calls for greater security in the art world.
Monday's Green Vault break in was dubbed the largest art theft in Germany since World War II. Here's how it happened, what was stolen, and if there's hope of finding the objects.
Burglars made off with three priceless diamond sets from a state museum in Dresden, police and museum directors confirmed Monday, in what German media have described as the biggest art heist since World War Two.
More than 1,000 skulls and bones belonging to east Africans and brought to Germany for racial "scientific" research during the colonial era are still in storage in Berlin, a media report said Tuesday.
Berlin's parliament on Thursday voted to open
the doors of museums, zoos, operas and theatres for free on January 31st, 2016, to thank the capital's residents for their mobilisation in the country's biggest refugee relief drive since the Second World War.
The giant head was to be a focal point of an exhibition of monuments in Berlin next year. But culture authorities say it is lost in a local forest, the Berliner Zeitung reported on Friday.
Berlin has agreed to build a new museum for 20th century masterpieces by artists including Rothko, Magritte and Dali donated by a wealthy couple, potentially resolving a lengthy dispute.
A furry homage or creepy exploitation? Nearly two years after the death of Berlin's favourite polar bear Knut, the city's natural history museum is using his pelt for a new exhibit.
A Berlin museum will on Thursday open what it called the first exhibition worldwide dedicated to the work of veteran US film-maker Martin Scorsese, who opened his vast archive for the show.
Human history's greatest treasures are all to be found in Bonn for the coming four months, with the crème de la crème of the British Museum's collection in Bonn until April.
While German officials talk about building new museums, they should first copy their British colleagues and open their collections to the people for free, says <b>Matthias Thibaut</b>, the <i>Tagesspiegel</i> newspaper’s London correspondent.
German car maker BMW and New York's Guggenheim Museum have axed plans to bring an urban design showcase to a Berlin district over threats of attacks, a spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
Nearly 50 ancient artefacts have been returned to the Bode Museum, Berlin, decades after being looted by Soviet soldiers. The find has sparked hope that more objects lost during the war will turn up.
A new exhibition at the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin offers insight into everyday life in East Germany and post-communist eastern Europe with never-before-seen photos. Curator Yara-Colette Lemke took The Local on a tour.
New York’s Guggenheim Museum is creating travelling “laboratories” that will look at the design of cities. Berlin is believed to be one host city, but a redevelopment dispute is complicating matters.
The art gallery director who organised the controversial Art of the Enlightenment exhibition of German art currently on display in Beijing is leaving his post in Dresden to take over the British Victoria and Albert Museum.
Fifty years after Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel, Germany is still keeping mum on how much it knew before Mossad agents kidnapped the Nazi war criminal in Argentina in 1960.
As the exhibition "The Art of the Enlightenment" opens in Beijing, its German curators have come under fire for pandering to a repressive Chinese regime. But hope remains that the art will benefit and educate a Chinese people living through an "era of darkness."
A new exhibition at the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin explores the role the police played in the Holocaust, with rare documents offering insight into how and why ordinary officers were complicit with the worst of the Nazi crimes.
In celebration of its 350-year anniversary, Berlin's state library has sent some of its most prized pieces – including a Gutenberg Bible from 1456 – to the German Historical Museum (DHM) for a three-month exhibition.
Turkey’s culture minister gave Germany an ultimatum on Thursday – return a valuable sphinx displayed at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum or lose the right to continue digging at the archaeological site where it was found.
