Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has rejected calls to return the giant altar to its place of origin. Visitors look at the frescos and the Pergamon altar in the altar room at Pergamon Museum in Berlin, ...

Berlin's world-famous Pergamon Museum, which is closed for several years of renovation work, is seeking to maintain its presence through international collaborations, one of the museum's directors ...

The heirs of their original owner (Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, from a prominent Jewish family) claimed the paintings were ...

BERLIN (AP) — Hadad, the ancient weather god at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, growls deeply as he casts his neon-blue gaze on visitors, his body bathed in pulsating orange light. What seems like a scene ...

Stakes have been raised in the museum world with the reopening after 10 years of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Enough old masters were dusted down and rehung during the renovation to get a room of Russian ...

German media has speculated that the vandalism of artifacts in the Pergamon Museum is connected to conspiracy theories that Angela Merkel uses the institution for satanic rituals. Damage to a ...

Three of Berlin’s most prestigious museums were the targets of major vandalism October 3—the date of the annual Day of German Unity. A person or persons who remain unidentified sprayed a colourless, ...

BERLIN – More than 60 artworks and artifacts at some of Berlin's best-known museums were smeared with an oily liquid by an unknown perpetrator or perpetrators earlier this month, authorities said ...

Earlier this month, a group of unknown vandals took to three institutions on Berlin’s museum island to pour an oily substance across ancient artifacts. Objects included in the attack on October 3 were ...

The Berlin police are asking visitors to the Museum Island for help figuring out who defaced 63 objects, but declined to comment on the possible role of a German conspiracy theorist. By Melissa Eddy ...