Museums & Heritage
Berlin’s Natural History Museum receives an eye-watering €660m of public funds for rebuild
Vast sum outstrips budget for reconstruction of city’s royal palace and creation of Humboldt Forum
In a Met protest, an artist posts her own labels next to a Picasso and Gauguin
She calls on museum to incorporate misogyny into the art historical narrative
Grand Egyptian Museum pushes full opening to 2020
Egyptian government hopes vast museum near Pyramids of Giza will win back international tourists
Houston museum reattributes painting to Velázquez
After conservation effort, Museum of Fine Arts decides its hunch was correct
Isenheim Altarpiece restoration finally back on track after public outcry
More than 30 conservators will treat paintings and sculptures, seven years after French culture ministry halted reckless cleaning of two panels
Modernism award honours preservation of a French school dating from 1933
Prize goes to firm for restoration of a monument to ‘civic Communism’
Native American group denounces Met’s exhibition of indigenous objects
The Association on American Indian Affairs says the "first mistake was to call these objects art" and that tribal representatives should have been consulted
Martine Franck comes into focus at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson's new Paris space
Inaugural show honours Belgian photographer and Cartier-Bresson's wife, who created the foundation to preserve their legacy
Dallas school given largest collection of Swiss art outside of Switzerland
The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift
Cultural 'matrimony' could resolve heritage disputes
We need to rethink our perceptions of an artist or an artefact as having a single, unified or homogenous heritage
Uffizi launches Leonardo da Vinci 500th celebrations across Italy
New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester
Tristram Hunt unveils plans for V&A East—the Victoria & Albert Museum's satellite London location
Museum will receive the buildings in former Olympic park for free, director says
Pompidou pops up in Chengdu but 'is not considering a permanent presence'
French museum takes Cosmopolis biennial platform to southwestern China less than a year before Shanghai outpost opens
US museums are too white, and this paid internship programme hopes to change that
Ten museums across America will participate in an inaugural project launched by the Association of Art Museum Directors
Houston's museum building boom continues with opening of Menil Drawing Institute
Campus expansions at three museums in Texas's biggest city focus on creating civic spaces as well as on showing art
Zeitz Mocaa: Africa’s private ‘Tate Modern’ must do more for its public
More than a year after opening, the Cape Town museum’s curatorial and educational record has yet to live up to its promise
Director swap: former Met chief Thomas Campbell succeeds Max Hollein at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Hollein took Campbell's old job as director of the Met
Top museum directors on the challenges of climate change and mass tourism
Vatican conference on preventive conservation warns of environmental impact of short-term politics
What's next for the Met after its 2020 Breuer exit?
Sheena Wagstaff says the move is part of a “positive, forward-thinking” new regime under Max Hollein’s directorship
Alaskan dancer helps the Met solve riddle of the Yup’ik mask
Conservator calls in master storyteller to decipher shamanic object
Iraqi artist Dia Azzawi designs new Lebanese private museum
The Nabu Museum collection combines antiquities with Modern and contemporary art
Museum of the Bible says that five of its Dead Sea Scroll fragments are apparently fakes
Tests by German institute show "characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin"
Soane Museum starts crowdfunding campaign to restore valued frame of a Reynolds painting
Institution hopes to raise £15,000 to clean and conserve wooden structure surrounding The Snake in the Grass
A bigger splash: France's expanded La Piscine museum reopens after makeover
Former Art Deco swimming pool in Roubaix dives into Modern French sculpture
Graff portrait of Saxon noblewoman shakes off centuries of grime and varnish
After painstaking work, its restorer curates a display at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie
George Lucas tells a new story at the Museum of Narrative Art
Construction has launched on the $1bn non-profit project, built to be “the world’s most inclusive and accessible art museum”
World Monuments Fund recognises sites threatened by conflict, climate change and natural disasters
Cultural locations in the Caribbean, the US Gulf coast and Mexico hit by recent hurricanes and earthquakes were a last minute addition to the list
Crystal Bridges to turn former cheese factory into contemporary satellite
Multi-disciplinary venue the Momentary will open in 2020
National Gallery of Canada receives major gift of contemporary art from collector Bob Rennie
The collection of 197 works is largely by Vancouver-based artists like Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Damien Moppet, Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer, but also includes an important piece by Doris Salcedo
Star Wars creator George Lucas picks Los Angeles over San Francisco to build $1bn museum
Filmmaker's personal collection will be on show, which includes works by Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth and Robert Crumb