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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 James-Simon-Galerie, the first new building on Berlin’s Museum Island in nearly 100 years, opened to the public on July 13, 2019 and acts as the new entrance building to the island. The building ...

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 ...