Museums
Ukraine rebuilds museum devoted to controversial national figure
Roman Shukhevych was a key figure in country’s fight for independence, but has also been accused of being a Nazi collaborator
London's Victoria & Albert Museum planning to launch voluntary exit scheme
The scheme comes after trade unions representing museum staff held strikes in September, with negotiations still ongoing
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum gains new €45m Norman Foster-designed wing
Renovation expands exhibition spaces and provides new facilities as well as creating better links with its neighbour, the Guggenheim Bilbao
From an indoor forest to a toilet made with seaweed: Design Museum Gent reopens after €20m eco-focused expansion
Museum renovation showcases creative and sustainable design ideas to help transform contemporary life
British Museum to extend Bayeux Tapestry opening hours
Some ticket holders have reportedly queued for up to two hours to enter the blockbuster exhibition, while others have been turned away
Nine Swiss museums to investigate provenance of thousands of objects from Cameroon
The research project has been awarded £91,000 in federal funding for 2027–28
Matronage over patronage: the Prado and Rijksmuseum team up to research women rulers’ impact on art
The collaborative project will explore the women of Habsburg Empire and include an exhibition at the Amsterdam museum in 2029
Doubts over financial sustainability of Brussels’s new Kanal museum cloud upcoming opening
The managing director Yves Goldstein will step down immediately after the opening in November due to “a difference of opinion” over the institution‘s future
British Museum bans visitors from photographing Bayeux Tapestry
Some ticket holders have reportedly been turned away from the exhibition because previous visitors had taken too long taking photos
The Big Review: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art ★★★½
While the swooping building is impressive and easy to navigate, the collection is patchy and the displays are at times “bizarre”
Rising costs force museums across North America to rethink climate control guidelines
Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems often account for 60%-70% of an institution’s energy consumption and lead to large carbon footprints
Comment | Why museums should tread carefully with audio and video in exhibition spaces
Cultural institutions must avoid falling into the trap of treating art as a visitor attraction
Australian entrepreneur invents hardware aimed at making art-handling lower risk and hands-free
Artist Engineering Hardware is a new system that aims to reduce damage during transport and installation by eliminating direct contact with works of art
Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza to open new venue for contemporary art
The expansion will house more than 360 contemporary artworks donated or on loan from the TBA21 Collection, led by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
Metropolitan Museum breaks ground on long-awaited new wing for Modern and contemporary art
The ceremony officially kicked off construction on the wing designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo
Major Swiss museum acquisition proves far larger after extra works revealed in donor’s unopened portfolios
Philippe Bodenmann has gifted his entire collection—including pieces by Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and Max Bill—to the Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds
Paris's Picasso museum reveals designers shortlisted for €55m sculpture garden project
Five teams of designers, featuring architects and landscape designers, will compete for the project, expected to be completed by 2030
‘Rembrandt’s DNA would be the Holy Grail’: new research samples bacteria on the surface of The Night Watch
A installation developed by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and a microbes museum in the city’s zoo will depict microbes found in the Old Master painting
UK government's proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say
There are few controls over how mayors spend the Overnight Visitor Levy income, according to plans announced earlier this week
Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF
A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show
Hungary’s new government scraps National Gallery plans
The planned SANAA-designed museum for Budapest’s City Park has been cancelled, leaving the future home of Hungary’s national collection undecided
England’s Pitt Rivers Museum announces its largest repatriation of human remains
Institution at the University of Oxford will return 39 pieces of remains, primarily skulls, to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent by the end of the year
Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos donates 51 contemporary works to four museums in Greece and Scotland
The works—mostly by Greek artists—will go to the National Gallery of Greece in Athens, Momus-Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete and National Galleries Scotland in Edinburgh
Bank opens museum in Spanish city of Santander to display its 1,000-strong art collection
David Chipperfield has converted Banco Santander’s former headquarters into Faro Santander, a new home for works by artists including Velásquez, Titian, Goya, Picasso and Sorolla
$1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art lifts off at long last
After almost a decade of delays and controversies, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson launch a giant space to house a 40,000-piece collection spanning from comics to Star Wars materials to a Frida Kahlo self-portrait
‘You have to take care’: behind the painstaking restoration of a rare early Art Nouveau house in Brussels
Visitors to the architect Victor Horta’s home can see the restoration in progress
Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen caught up in alleged bribery scandal as civil servants dismissed
The city’s mayor said that two civil servants were found to have accepted “gifts from the municipality’s business contacts in exchange for possible preferential treatment”
Chief executive of Sydney’s anticipated Parramatta Powerhouse museum steps down two months before grand opening
Lisa Havilah had stood aside pending “investigations into governance and procurement”, according to New South Wales’ arts minister
Art centre launches in Durham, UK with light-themed works by Tracey Emin, Dan Flavin
The Light in Durham—formerly the Durham Light Infantry Museum and Art Gallery—has reopened following £17m redevelopment
Sydney’s A$915m Powerhouse Parramatta museum announces opening date and plans for ambitious space-themed exhibition
Plans for the institution’s five inaugural shows have been revealed





























