The Berlin State Museums (SMB), which include a number of the German capital’s most popular art institutions—such as the Pergamon Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island, and the Hamburger Bahnhof, dedicated ...

Berlin’s neighborhoods tell stories that textbooks can’t quite capture. Each district carries the weight of history—from ...

How do you construct an unforgettable but practical 21st-century wonder on a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is already jam packed with striking but impractical architecture? It took 20 years, but ...

Berlin is the capital of the 20 th century. And nothing better captures that than its museums, which are deep in Nazi and Cold War history. But beyond that, there are incredible museums dedicated to ...

BERLIN — What is the role of a Jewish museum? Is it for the Jewish community, or those non-Jews around it? And must its leader be Jewish? These questions are swirling around the future of the Jewish ...

A young boy talks to U.S. Army military police as the exhibit visited Toledo, Ohio. Courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art Ann Pflaum was just seven years old when her parents took her to a popular ...

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 ...

Berlin’s state museums have announced the “painful” end of a loan agreement with the collector Friedrich Christian Flick next year because the building where his collection has primarily been shown, ...

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 ...

As far as major cities go, few other places are in possession of so many treasures that are so poorly exhibited as Berlin. It's as though cultural institutions here go out of their way to keep people ...