Museums & Heritage

Russia charges Estonian museum director with ‘rehabilitating Nazism’ over Putin-Hitler banner

Maria Smorževskihh-Smirnova of the Narva Museum has been targeted over a poster featuring a composite image of the two men

American Museum of Natural History announces free admission for low-income New Yorkers

The institution joins the city’s MoMA, Frick, Morgan Library and Jewish Museum in providing free admission to people on food stamps

Amy Sherald cancels Smithsonian show over censorship claim

The artist says leaders at the National Portrait Gallery suggested removing her painting of a non-binary transgender person posing as the Statue of Liberty

Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s new chief conservator

The Frick veteran is particularly excited about all the new conservation spaces, created as part of the museum’s recent Selldorf-designed expansion

National Museum of Korea names new director as part of post-election reshuffle

President Lee Jae Myung’s victory in June has been followed by homecomings for two high-profile arts figures in the country, while the Busan Biennale has also announced its curators for 2026

One of England's oldest human-made structures given protected status by Historic England

The 5,000 year old Yorkshire cairn is thought to be older than Stonehenge

Trump pulls US out of ‘woke’ Unesco

The State Department says that Unesco membership does not square with its “America-first” outlook

700 Years of Tenochtitlan (again): Mexico honours its pre-Hispanic capital

The Mexica city’s founding is celebrated with new commemorations, reinforcing a nationalist focus on Indigenous identity

Sharp drop in value of works saved for the UK this past year, official report reveals

A painting by Antoine Watteau valued at £6m was among those granted an export licence after no museum buyer was found, however items including the Second World War notebooks of Alan Turing were saved

Right royal style: 90 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s fashion to go on show at Buckingham Palace

The late monarch's wedding and coronation dresses will form part of a 200-piece exhibition at the King's Gallery, opening in Spring 2026

San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain may soon meet its end, despite public outcry

At a recent community meeting discussing the future of Embarcadero Plaza, officials’ comments appeared to seal the fate of its historic Brutalist sculpture

A new art foundation in Uruguay highlights Latin American artists and curators

The Fundación Cervieri Monsuárez, located in the ritzy village of José Ignacio, organises exhibitions year round in an effort to transform the area into a hub for Latin America art

Dublin museum pushes back on Derek Jarman film censorship claims

The Irish Museum of Modern Art says it halted a screening of “The Angelic Conversation” to check legislation but will now continue showing it

Palestinian Museum seeks new ways to reach audiences as crisis escalates

The museum in the occupied West Bank is adapting to regional violence by focusing on digital exhibitions, international shows and works by contemporary Gazan artists

US immigration agents show up unannounced at Puerto Rican cultural centre in Chicago

More than a dozen Department of Homeland Security vehicles swarmed the parking lot of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture

Football stadium disrupts plans for Tasmanian truth-and-reconciliation art park

The development, which was due to address the genocide waged against Aboriginal Tasmanians by British colonists, has lost out to government-backed sports venue

4,000-year-old ancient city discovered in Peru

Peñico opened to the public earlier this week, following eight years of research led by the archaeologist Ruth Shady

Mexico City’s Museo Dolores Olmedo to reopen in 2026 amid controversy

Questions still linger about the future of the most significant collection of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Sicily's new anti-mafia museum honours ‘strength of the vulnerable over fear’

The Museum of the Present examines the legacy of the Italian island’s century-long fight against organised crime

New photography venue to open in Dublin’s gentrifying east docklands

PhotoIreland, the organiser of Ireland’s longest-running photography festival, has set up its first permanent exhibition space

Historic Grand Canyon Lodge destroyed by wildfire

The beloved 1937 complex, which hosted millions of visitors on the National Park’s North Ridge, has fallen victim to the ongoing Dragon Bravo Fire

Cleveland artist turns historic Greyhound bus into museum

Robert Louis Brandon Edwards has been working to convert a vehicle that carried Black Americans north during the Great Migration

Amid crackdowns on dissent, Russia’s private museums are threatened

Staying open can mean coping with security service raids, harassment, verbal attacks by lawmakers and an exodus of staff

Bronx Museum of the Arts appoints Shamim M. Momin as director and chief curator

Momin, who has a long-standing relationship with the Whitney Museum and previously led the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, will start her role in September

Job cuts at National Trust could pose threat to charity's mission, union says

Up to 550 jobs could be axed at the charity as part of a bid to save £26m, despite rising visitor numbers

Crystal Bridges Museum and Art Bridges receive 90 works of contemporary Indigenous art in landmark acquisition

The gift from the John and Susan Horseman Collection will expand access to Native art across the US

Why ‘devastating’ climate control rules for museum collections need a rethink

Researchers and conservators have found one-size-fits-all standards to be both ineffective and inefficient—and now they're looking for better ways to preserve works

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Hoard of stolen documents—including logbook of the ‘saviour of the Netherlands’—recovered by art detective

Arthur Brand worked with police to return the items to the Netherlands’ National Archives after they were found in an attic

France resisted loan of Bayeux Tapestry for ‘decades’, Macron says during British Museum visit

The French president made the comments yesterday at a ceremony attended by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer