A Swiss government report has concluded that the country’s museums should more intensively investigate whether they hold artwork looted during the Nazi era. The report, published this week by the ...
Nine Swiss museums have been awarded CHF 100,000 (roughly $120,000), to examine more than 6,300 objects from Cameroon held in ...
A week ago, Swiss customs authorities set off alarm bells in the museum world when they sent letters to several Swiss museums advising of tightened and seemingly new regulations governing the ...
Despite a growing push for gender parity in art institutions around the world, the gap in Swiss museums is still widely imbalanced, according to a new survey. Only a quarter of solo museum shows in ...
This is a preview of Apollo Art Travel: Switzerland, published with the September issue of Apollo and the 24 September issue of the Spectator Wandering around the brand new wing of Basel’s Kunstmuseum ...
Three Swiss museums have returned 18 royal and religious artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria, marking another significant repatriation of the so-called Benin Bronzes. A handover ceremony ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turret is seen beside the hull of a German World War II Tiger II "King Tiger" tank at Swiss Military Museum Full in Full FULL, ...
Jewish collector Curt Glaser sold most of his works at “fire-sale prices” in 1933 in order to flee Germany. (JTA) — The Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, has agreed to pay the heirs of a Jewish art ...
A group of museums in Switzerland have been awarded SFr100,000 (£91,000) to examine the provenance of more than 6,300 objects from Cameroon currently held in their collections. The Swiss Federal ...
Looted art: Renoir’s “Portrait of Irene Cahen d’Anvers” at the the Kunsthaus Zurich – Copyright AFP Mahmud HAMS A top Swiss museum has run into trouble ...