Museums & Heritage

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

Turkish power plant reborn as regional cultural hub

Motorhane has been created as part of a European Union-backed effort to bring the arts to neglected regions

Syria, Ukraine and Gaza among countries to receive heritage funds from Aliph

Syria is set to receive $5m including for Palmyra, while a further $9m has been earmarked to address the impact of climate change on heritage, mainly in Africa

‘Research powerhouse’: Abu Dhabi's Zayed National Museum confirms 2025 opening

The mega museum, set to open in December, will fund projects aimed at enriching understanding of UAE’s cultural and historical legacy

Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK for first time in almost 1,000 years

The tapestry will be displayed at the British Museum from September 2026, as part of a bilateral season of culture between the UK and France

Less than two years after opening, the Museum of Censored Art in Barcelona has closed its doors

A statement from the museum, which displayed works by Ai Weiwei and Goya, attributes the closure to disruption caused by strike action

Ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship to be debated by UK parliament

Campaigners behind a petition that has garnered more than 100,000 signatures are seeking to end the kind of deals struck by the British Museum and Science Museum

Ford Foundation taps dean of Yale Law School as next president

The constitutional law scholar Heather K. Gerken will oversee the Ford Foundation, a $16bn philanthropic entity with an eye towards social justice

‘Our biggest heritage crisis’: why Britain’s churches are in danger

The government has this year cut back a funding lifeline for listed churches, putting historic buildings and the art they house at risk

Artist and curator Jean-Marc Bustamante to launch foundation in Arles culture hub

Bustamante will take over a medieval church that will host shows and lectures

MFA Boston returns two works to Kingdom of Benin

The two artefacts are being restituted as part of the museum's closure of its Benin gallery, which had been donated by the billionaire collector Robert Lehman

Should UK museums display mummies? One institution is asking its visitors for their view

The Manchester Museum is running a public consultation about the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt

US government’s attempts to solicit National Park visitors’ feedback on historical depictions backfires

Notices asking visitors to report “any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans” prompted outrage and pushback

A first glimpse (and listen) inside Lacma’s $720m new building

The David Geffen Galleries, which officially opens next April, recently hosted a preview event and performances by Kamasi Washington and an ensemble of 100 jazz musicians

Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum

The Modernist artist’s son has opened a museum dedicated to his father in Karachi