What does celebrating Veterans Day look like while overseas during a time of war? Monuments Man Captain Robert Posey recalled in a November

On this day, thirteen years ago, on the 63rd anniversary of D-Day, Robert M. Edsel announced the founding of the MMF

The Monuments Men Foundation announces the passing of Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite, the last known living Monuments Woman.

"To safeguard these things will not affect the course of battles, but it will affect the relations of invading armies with those peoples and [their] governments…To safeguard these things will show respect for the beliefs and customs of all men and will bear witness that these things belong not only to a particular people but also to the heritage of mankind. [...] These monuments are not merely pretty things, not merely valued signs of man’s creative power. They are expression

Monuments Men Foundation Announces Appointment of Anna Bottinelli as New President

Today we mourn the passing of a great American and friend, Monuments Man Harry Ettlinger, who died yesterday after 92 remarkable years.

John Pistone took the album as a souvenir of his service during World War II – and as a reminder that he survived what so many of his comrad

The Monuments Men Foundation is pleased to announce that its collection will have a new home at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

Works of art and other cultural treasures have not survived the ages by accident. Learned people of previous generations understood the impo

The recent discovery in Munich of 1,400 valuable pictures once owned by Dr. Hildebrand Gurlitt, a former museum director and later art deale

Today’s formal announcement by German officials of the discovery of some 1,500 works of art missing since World War II raised more questio

This September 14-23, Monuments Men Foundation President Robert M. Edsel and Monuments Man Harry Ettlinger will lead a small group on a one-of-a kind trip designed in conjunction with The National World War II Museum. The ten day trip to Europe will include visits to the key locations in which the Monuments Men worked including some of the most dramatic moments of their wartime duty: discovery of Nazi treasure troves at the Castle of Neucshwanstein, and in the Alt Ausse

On January 22, the U.S. State Department hosted a ceremony marking the return of two irreplaceable documents, one of which was lo- cated by the Monuments Men Foundation. Gemäldegalerie Linz Al- bum XIII was a prized possession of Hitler and documented German 19th century works of art he had accumulated, both through purchase and theft, for the Führermuseum he planned to build in his hometown. The other document is known as the Augsburger Gesch- lechterbuch or “Augsburg