No plans to return Berlin's star museum attractions Nefertiti and Pergamon Altar, German official says

Berlin officials have said there are no plans to return the bust of Nefertiti or the Pergamon Altar to their countries of origin. Lena Kreck, the senator for justice, diversity and anti-discrimination in Berlin, said to the Berlin State Parliament's legal committee last Wednesday that there were “different perspectives on the justice of the possession of the Pergamon Altar and the Nefertiti bust, in the legal as well as the moral sense”. The bust of Nefertiti and the Pergamon Altar are two of the most popular attractions of Berlin’s museums, hosted at the Neues Museum and the Pergamon Museum respectively.

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