The institution has doubled the size of its former space to display more of its collection of 117,000 works, plus newly commissioned sculptures and installations

The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements

The White House plans to install new Commission of Fine Arts who “are more aligned with President Trump’s ‘America First’ policies”

Plans to bring the series of 20 paintings to a Thomas Heatherwick-designed space are on the table—however there are obstacles including a lawsuit in the way

The fundraising effort, which coincides with the organisation’s 60th anniversary, was bolstered by a $10m contribution from historian and philanthropist Suzanne Deal Booth

The private institution, funded by Al Futtaim Group, will be built on a jetty

The latest Museums Moving Forward report on museum sector satisfaction found a few bright spots amid persistent low pay, inequity and burnout

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long history

One group called the sudden demolition “a collective loss” while another expressed concern the $300m ballroom that will replace the East Wing “will overwhelm the White House itself”

The artist is urgently seeking a new home for his sizeable sculpture before the end of Black History Month

A “perfect storm” of fire-retardant paint, humidity and the Covid-19 lockdown caused major damage to Louise Nevelson’s unique environment of nine painted wooden sculptures inside St Peter’s Lutheran Church in Manhattan

The delays to updating the museum’s apparently lacklustre surveillance infrastructure, meanwhile, have been blamed on its ambitious renovation plans

The work was restituted to the descendants of collectors Ludwig and Rosy Fischer earlier this year

According to the Frost Museum of Science next door, the Pamm’s large digital billboard—subject of a previous dispute with the city that was settled last month—violates state laws

The gift, the largest in the museum’s history, will allow it to welcome more local students and families, while partnering with local university education programmes

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, world’s most important collection of works by the Group of Seven, has picked Hariri Pontarini Architects to expand and modernise its facilities

After 10 years in development, the 40m-wide work will go on display next June at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

The museum has reopened today following the heist, although the gallery which housed the objects remains closed

The massive, historic works at the core of “Monuments” were never meant to travel, and moving them has been an enormously complex job

Anthony Kiendl, who most recently helmed the Vancouver Art Gallery, will start in Denver on 1 December

A team has used 3D reconstructions of lost buildings to gain insight on the richness of life above ground in the ancient city

The protestor took to the stage in the midst of a speech by the museum's chair of trustees, George Osborne

Politicians and unions have criticised the government after the world’s most visited museum was robbed in broad daylight on Sunday

For the occasion, the institution has also remodelled its lobby and put together a separate exhibition looking back at its history

The show at the Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art addresses the US’s fraught racial history—featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside works by Kara Walker, Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson and others

The project has been almost 100 years in the making, when one of the Ringling brothers bought thousands of works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and took them home to Sarasota

Fragile limestone carvings from the Diquís culture undergo conservation at the Finca 6 Museum Site in southern Costa Rica

The Museum Villa Stuck’s opulent interiors have had new life breathed into them—and the influential artist’s collection has been rehung

Some of the artefacts were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of ongoing investigations into the activities of smugglers Robin Symes and Eugene Alexander

In 2023 the Mütter Museum was at the centre of a scandal around the repatriation of Indigenous remains. Now, as the dust begins to settle, a new leadership team is looking to the future