for this project I’m only looking at acquisitions made between 1933 and 1945. That amounts to about 1,200 works. In the first phase of the project, that number was reduced still further. First, I checked
complicated provenance. The Museum für Asiatische Kunst has been closed to the public since January 1, 2017, while we get everything ready for the move to the Humboldt Forum. I have long been planning to [...] than 8,000 sheets has never been digitally recorded in its entirety, only in…
application so that the proceeding would also take other possible claims into account. On December 1, 2025, the Arbitration Tribunal for Nazi-Looted Art replaced the Commission. Recommendation of the Advisory
juxtaposition of 21st-century Moroccan silk embroidery with Anni Albers’ Bauhaus textiles from 1927 and the 1,500-year-old Huari men’s shirt from Peru, a dialogue transcending time and space emerges concerning
long before colonisation? The history of Benin, located in present-day Nigeria, stretches back almost 1,000 years. The dynasty of the current king has held the throne for around 500 years, making it one of
descriptions in the catalogues raisonné and auction catalogues of 1934, it must have contained over 1,000 individual works of art. For this reason, MARI’s most important tasks are to reconstruct the inventory
instructions described in detail the order in which the inventory of the Louvre was to be distributed: “1. The art objects whose future use the Führer has reserved the right to decide, 2. The art objects that [...] or Leningrad for storage. As a gesture to its socialist “brothers,” the…
Museum Island within a decade! And with the masterplan, it became clear that the final figure would be 1.5 billion euros. No other museum site, no other institution, no other country had to tackle anything
the institutions’ organisational structures as they were before reunification. We only merged them on 1 January 1992. We avoided the impression of a simple takeover by the West. In all cases where a Western
Berlin’s identity after the Wall was built. The Friends of the Egyptian Museum, which at the time had over 1,000 members, was, after all, a purely West Berlin club! And when I announced to them in our in-house