From Tutankhamun's new king-sized home in Cairo to Munch's sleek space in Oslo, here is our pick of the big openings this year

Second stage of open-access restoration of Van Eyck brothers’ masterpiece strips away 16th-century overpainting to reveal an abundance of fine details

With the Louvre revealing its virtual reality Mona Lisa, museums ponder the power of tech experiences

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

We look back at the biggest stories of the year

Research groups have designed new technologies and initiatives for the V&A, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza

From the UK's hottest graduates to forgotten Indian masterpieces

This is the first time the Florentine museum has formed a long-term partnership with a foreign institution

Supporters of new international Climate Heritage Network argue that the sector has a “moral duty” to act

Exhibition in Madrid will include more than 60 works by the two painters and will “break the idea of small works being clichés of female artists”

Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago

Birmingham institution is first recipient of new Ampersand Foundation Award that enables UK museums to realise a major project

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist terrier to vintage prints by Vivian Maier

Announcement of RA artistic director's new appointment comes after Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black stepped down as co-directors

Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government

The private collector tells us about her dreams for her own museum and the difficulty of maintaining her food art

Eight solo gallery presentations explore textiles, from knotted biomorphic hemp forms to Bauhaus-inspired geometric compositions in silk, cotton and paper at this year's fair

Major survey at Palazzo Reale will include his "most difficult" works as well as early pieces that inspired the Surrealists

Supported by undisclosed donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies, French museum’s newly renovated Islamic galleries reopened in full this week

Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections—from a compendium of African American history to the vast archive of an expelled Surrealist

After a grant enabled conservation on a much-loved painting, researchers at the National Gallery of Ireland are learning more about the artist’s technique

His company Safariland has been criticised for manufacturing tear gas canisters that have been used on asylum seekers along the US-Mexico border

The intensely private artist won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Site-specific works by artists such as Michael Rakowitz and Holly Hendry are planned as part of the Creative Coast initiative led by Turner Contemporary and Visit Kent

State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide—from Lee Krasner's record-setting painting to a Hogarth conversation piece

Turkish non-profit contemporary art space Arter is relocating to a state-of-the-art exhibition space in Dolapdere district

Artist Melissa McGill teams up with Venetian sailors to celebrate maritime tradition in face of mass tourism and climate change

Critics say the move by Italy's populist coalition government will compromise the autonomy of museums