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Berlin museum approaches ethnological collection in new ways
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA Berlin museum opens fully to the public this week with a very modern take on the display of...
Germany to return looted goddess statue to Cameroon’s Nso people
Quartz· 2 years agoClose to three decades ago, Prof. Bongasu Tanla Kishani a member of the Nso tribe of northwestern...
Skulls stolen from Africa a century ago have been genetically linked with living people
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSkulls housed in a German hospital's collection for a century were stolen from Africa during the...
Germany hands over 2 Indigenous masks to Colombia as it reappraises the past
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoGermany handed over to Colombia on Friday two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been...
Berlin's state museums are getting more expensive
dpa international via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA packet of rice, a tank full of petrol, an afternoon at a gallery: In Berlin, the price of entry to major museums is rising along with other commodities...
Berlin museums ready to return skulls from African ex-colony
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Berlin museum authority said Wednesday that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German colony of East Africa after having researched their origin for several ...
Germany to return stolen Ngonnso' statue to Cameroon
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGermany will return a goddess statue that was stolen from Cameroon 120 years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said on Monday, part of a growing trend to give back artefacts taken ...
Toulouse-Lautrec work hit with fake blood at Berlin museum
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA painting by famed 19th-century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was doused with fake blood at a Berlin museum in an act reminiscent of recent climate activist protests, although there ...