Museums & Heritage

New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

Helmed by the philanthropist Robert Rosenkranz and the founding director of Mass Moca, Joe Thompson, Canyon will open on the Lower East Side in 2026

Kim Sajet, director of US National Portrait Gallery whom Trump tried to fire, resigns

Sajet said it was “not an easy decision” but “the best way to serve the institution I hold so deeply in my heart”

Security guards at three major London museums secure pay rise after months-long dispute

Guards at the Natural History, Science and Victoria & Albert Museums—all of whom are employed by an external contractor—will now earn a base salary in line with the London Living Wage

Newly opened Photography Museum of Seoul plans to become a ‘cultural anchor’ for the region

The new space in Dobong-gu district has been billed as country's first public museum dedicated to photography

Peruvian government reverses decision to shrink Nazca Lines site by nearly half

After outcry from civil servants and environmentalists, the Ministry of Culture has walked back a decision that might have left the famed geoglyphs more vulnerable to mining

Donald Judd campus in Marfa, Texas added to US's National Register of Historic Places

The Minimalist bought and modified more than a dozen buildings in Texas in the 1970s, using them as studios and galleries for his sculptures and transforming a small city into the art-world pilgrimage site it is today

US National Gallery of Art receives trove of Modern and contemporary drawings

The gift, from longtime benefactors Lenore and Bernard Greenberg, includes works on paper by Ed Ruscha, Franz Kline, Susan Rothenberg, Philip Guston and others

Tate Liverpool receives £12m from UK government to support delayed revamp

The reopening of regional UK museum was originally due to take place this year, but was pushed back to 2027

Malta’s mysterious prehistoric temples may have taught sailors to navigate by the stars, new research suggests

Experts have long wondered whether the layout of the temples, which were constructed between 3800BC and 2400BC, held specific meaning

Education union calls on schools to boycott London's Science Museum over ‘image-laundering’ sponsorship deals

Groups representing scientists, teachers and culture workers held a protest outside the institution on Sunday over its deals with oil company BP and Adani Green Energy

Smithsonian asserts authority to make ‘all personnel decisions’ following Trump attempts to fire gallery director

In response to the president’s targeting of National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet, the organisation has issued a strategically broad statement, touting its independence and governance by a board and secretary

New Frida Kahlo museum to open in Mexico City

Museo Casa Kahlo, in the artist’s family home in Coyoacán, promises to reveal an intimate portrait of the global icon’s childhood

Metropolitan Museum and watchmaker Vacheron Constantin launch artist residency

The 18-month residency includes time to explore the New York museum’s collection and meet with staff and scholars, plus opportunities to work with Vacheron Constantin’s experts in Geneva

Former director claims Frida Kahlo works went missing from Mexico City museum

Hilda Trujillo Soto, a leader at the museums for nearly 20 years, claims six pages from Kahlo’s diary and more than a dozen works went missing and some were reportedly sold by auction houses and a gallery in the US

Pussy Riot co-founder starts Los Angeles prison performance with existential scream

Nadya Tolokonnikova calls the two-week residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art her first durational performance

Mexico’s most popular museum reopens after lack of security guards caused it to shutter

It took the intervention of President Claudia Sheinbaum to open the doors again at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City

Leader of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum to depart after a decade at the helm

As director and chief executive, Josh Basseches has overseen far-reaching changes at the institution

Show at Civil War-era fort spotlights California’s Black history from the 19th century to today

A new exhibition at Fort Point in San Francisco, organised by the non-profit For-Site, features works by 16 artists and a collective

Pompeii visits being spoiled by soaring visitor numbers, tour guides say

New admissions systems and outdated ticketing software have been blamed for long queues and bottlenecks at the Unesco site

Chinese museum visitors accuse artist Heman Chong of ‘cyber harassment’

Visitors to Chong's recent show at UCCA Dune in China have accused the artist of “misogyny” after he allegedly reposted images of them to his Instagram account without consent

Whitney Museum pauses Independent Study Program amid accusations of censorship

The cancellation of a performance addressing the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza has also sparked an open letter by alumni of the programme

UK national museums back call for end to ‘relentless negativity’ around corporate arts sponsorship

The British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The National Gallery have signed a public letter authored by the co-chief executives of Sadler’s Wells

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam ponders space to ‘respectfully’ house human remains

The museum's director of content has suggested that spaces “where people can come and be with their ancestors” could provide an interim solution to the ethically fraught issue

Seven years after brutal fire, National Museum of Brazil to partially reopen

Three rooms at the Rio de Janeiro museum will reopen to the public soon, offering a glimpse at recently donated artefacts and conservators’ ongoing efforts

‘The pain has become unbearable’: Tel Aviv Museum of Art workers stage daily protest outside the institution

A group of employees, representing a range of stances on the ongoing war, has protested outside the museum every workday for nearly two months

British Museum faces internal criticism over private Israel independence day event

Current and former employees have expressed shock that the museum hosted the event—which marks a day associated with the mass displacement of Palestinians—during one of the most violent weeks of the Israel-Hamas conflict

Berlin museums’ first woman leader plans to tackle reforms and construction

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, now led by Marion Ackermann, is currently undergoing major structural changes

China’s terracotta army reportedly ‘damaged’ by museum visitor

A 30-year-old man reportedly “climbed over the guardrail” that protects the 2,000-year-old statues