Family elders give blessing to new exhibition of Yorùbá masquerade costume, stolen from Nigerian shrine room 70 years ago

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Dalí’s lobster telephone to a bumper gift of indigenous art

Union boss calls museum's recent offer "an insult"

$17.7m effort includes refurbishment of “palm dome” and two galleries

Christopher Wool show kicks off rotating programme from Janine and Tom Hill’s collection

GES-2 will be part of Moscow's Museum Mile, linked to Garage, the Tretyakov and the Pushkin

The Unesco-listed site is due to receive a museum of Afro-Brazilian culture

The still life of fruit and chestnuts, until recently dismissed as a fake, was painted in Paris

Di-faced Tenner is artist’s first work to join the collection officially—unlike his 2005 cave painting prank

Museum board says fundraising campaign to build delayed private museum is not dependent on the scandal-hit auto executive

When restoration is complete, the public will have access to Qianlong Garden complex for the first time

Stains on the lavishly decorated gown—made for royal's 21st birthday—show that it had gone to some good parties

But the disputed treasure, the Rosetta Stone, will remain in London

A temporary budget deal ended the US government shutdown on Friday, allowing state-funded arts organisations to get back to work

New exhibition is dedicated to Margaret Demant—a passionate booster of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection

University is facing $70m lawsuit from seven women claiming that it turned a blind eye to sexual abuse and discrimination

Residential Palace complex, a casualty of Allied bombing in the Second World War, is due to be rebuilt by 2021

The local philanthropic Chan family has reinvigorated the long-awaited expansion with an “unprecedented” gift

Decade-long effort with Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities results in a ventilation and filtration system

After ten years at the post, he has plenty of accomplishments, including bringing Indigenous art into the canon, and few regrets

Javett Art Centre at University of Pretoria will display 800-year-old gold collection excavated in the 1930s

Collectors Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner were drawn by the Saskatchewan museum’s dedication to indigenous and aboriginal art from around the globe

The new Greek and Roman curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum should rejuvenate its displays with honest, better stories

The World Monuments Fund announces the completion of a four-year conservation effort

Petition to form union was filed with the National Labor Relations Board last week

Public conversation to be held in February will address long impasse on museum loans

Unusual press release is latest twist in long-running dispute between Amsterdam institution and its former director

A selective view of African cultural heritage continues the colonialist paradigm

The Swiss curator is resigning from the Michigan institution for family reasons