Overview

• Three of the four museums examined—the Roentgen-Museum Neuwied, Erkenbert-Museum Frankenthal and Stadtmuseum Bad Dürkheim—showed signs of potentially NS-looted art.
• Roentgen-Museum Neuwied recorded 31 suspect items, including 28 pewter pieces from finance office holdings and portraits from a former synagogue storage.
• Erkenbert-Museum Frankenthal identified 15 objects of concern, such as an ethnological collection acquired in 2004, while Bad Dürkheim reported 10 now-missing pieces likely linked to Nazi-era expropriation.
• Eifelmuseum Mayen was the only institution with no objects flagged during the initial provenance review.
• A state survey found 86% of Rheinland-Pfalz museums have never conducted provenance research and the Kulturministerium’s €165,000 grant underlines the push for deeper investigations.