Treasure trove comprises 700 10th-century objects and fragments, weighing almost 18.5kg

The work is on loan to the exhibition ‘Rembrandt 1632: The Creation of a Brand’ at the Ducal Museum Gotha

During Stephan Jost’s tenure, the leading art museum in Toronto has launched construction of a new contemporary art gallery, added more than 18,000 pieces to its collection and navigated plenty of drama

Visitors to the architect Victor Horta’s home can see the restoration in progress

After the museum laid off almost half its staff over the summer, its main campus was shut down and employees are calling for the removal of its director

A chorus of Jewish community leaders, donors, politicians and others criticised the Met’s decision to honour Galliano in light of a 2011 conviction for an antisemitic hate crime

In 2023, when he was mayor of greater Manchester, Burnham had expressed unequivocal support for returning the Parthenon Marbles with ‘no strings’ attached

A criminal court in Hamburg has ordered the confiscation of €32m in sales proceeds from Serop Simonian’s children, who plan to appeal their conviction

Museum leadership said the partnership would end on 31 August ‘at the end of its agreed term’

Authorities are searching for two unmasked men who bought tickets to the Museum of Applied Arts, smashed a display case, snatched the valuable necklace and walked out

The Museo de Arte Colonial in Antigua closed abruptly last December, and its collection of 287 works has been in limbo ever since

The export bar gives UK museums and galleries until 26 December to raise the funds to keep the painting in the country

Lisa Havilah had stood aside pending “investigations into governance and procurement”, according to New South Wales’ arts minister

"Mississippi Fountain", originally created for an office tower near the river in collaboration with the architect Gordon Bunshaft, will be installed at the museum’s Beaux Arts entrance this autumn

The Casa Nacional de Moneda in Potosí, famous for its silver objects, coining machinery and colonial paintings, will undergo repair of its roofs and stonework

Mackenzie, who was made a peer in July, previously led various performing arts festivals and theatres in the UK and abroad, and was most recently director of arts at the British Council

The Light in Durham—formerly the Durham Light Infantry Museum and Art Gallery—has reopened following £17m redevelopment

The board of regents will discuss opening the institution inside the historic Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall—a move that could circumvent congressional approval, and president Trump

The Indigenous Art Centre has been unable to locate 111 works from its collection of more than 5,000 pieces by First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists

Selma’s long-abandoned Edistone Hotel, witness to 170 years of African American history, was recently saved by a non-profit devoted to protecting Black historical sites

The Colombian ministry of culture has compiled a preliminary report of damage to cultural sites in the seven departments closest to the 10 August earthquake’s epicentre, and in the Unesco-designated “Coffee Cultural Region”

After multiple assaults from Moscow, now the artist community Nahirna22 faces eviction

Works by Marie Bracquemond, Wifredo Lam, T.C. Cannon, Christina Quarles and many others are among the around 190 objects joining the collection

The Chinati Foundation will carefully repair and weatherproof the Judd-modified buildings that house his 100 untitled works in mill aluminium

Murals at Unesco World Heritage Site Zuojiang Huashan in southern China were made using animal blood and blood from childbirth, according to researchers

Five pieces by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari, taken in the same heist last December, remain missing

Likely reassembled in modern times, the skull was returned by the Netherlands following a grassroots campaign; it will go on display at a community museum in Oaxaca

Issues at the Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xi'an and the Zhejiang Museum have prompted the National Cultural Heritage Administration to put out a notice

The public statement of support follows the international museum body’s recent update of its code of ethics, as well as a similar statement issued by the American Alliance of Museums in July

The High Renaissance master’s “Madonna of St Sebastian” shows off its colours after nearly four years of treatment