Museums & Heritage

From the archive | ‘Because of him, even more people come to Rome’: director of the Vatican museums describes the crowd-pulling impact of Pope Francis

Antonio Paolucci discusses the role of the Vatican's museums as custodians of sacred and profane art after the city state makes its underground necropolis accessible during Francis's first year as spiritual leader of the world's catholics

Nicholas Serota discusses an international outlook and Tate’s new worldwide web

Developing a global reach is just as important for major cultural institutions as it is for big businesses

British Museum expert says griffin returned to Iran is fake

Scepticism grows about confiscated silver vessel handed over by the US as an act of diplomacy

Victoria and Albert Museum, Jameel Prize 3

The Jameel Prize show at the Victoria and Albert Museum looks for the best in Islamic or Islamic-inspired art

Room with a view tops off Tate Britain’s revamp

Penelope Curtis, the gallery’s director, aims to accentuate the strengths of the collection and the building

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Works head to Tate fresh from Frieze thanks to the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund

Younger and less recognised artists were the order of the day

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Tate borrows £55m for building projects

Renovations and expansions at both London Tates have been costly, and loans were required to bridge gaps in cashflow

Purposeful destruction: Smashing art at the Tate Britain

Tate Britain traces the driving forces and ideologies behind a 500-year history of iconoclasm

V&A reapplies after lottery funding setback

Bid for Exhbition Road extension and underground gallery rejected

Praise for Tate Britain rehang

The move from a thematic hang to a chronological one has been celebrated by critics

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Tate Modern loses top museum slot by a hair

The gallery was beaten to the post by the British Museum

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Starry night for Tate in New York: celebrity friends help museum fundraise in style

Sarah Jessica Parker and the mysterious Tate Americas Foundation raise money for Latin American acquisitions

Ch… ch… ch… ch… changes at the Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum is the first institution to gain access to David Bowie’s 75,000-item archive

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Artists Barbara Hepworth and Andrew Forge and fellow Tate trustee Herbert Read opposed a £4,665 Lichtenstein in 1966

After a heated debate the purchase, estimated to be worth more than $40m, went ahead

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Sweet factory could be Moscow’s Tate Modern

It will be part of a larger development that will include office space, retail outlets and swanky lofts

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Miró on loan damaged at Tate Modern

The museum forked out £203,000 for repair and depreciation costs

Tate Modern’s quick cash-flow fix involves dipping into collections fund

The £12 will be used to complete the London museum's extension, but it will be repaid at a later date

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Tate effort to represent Africa

Tate expands globalised holdings

Drip, drag and drape: Tate explores performance art and paint in motion

Tate Modern shows that painting and performance are not polar opposites, but have a long history of interaction

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Tate spreads acquisition net to India and Russia

The museum is committed to diversifying their collection

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Tate to launch two new acquisitions committees

The globalisation of Tate's collection continues

A not so golden Olympics- tourist numbers drop

London’s leading museums lose more than a million visitors during the Games, but Hirst helps Tate Modern buck the trend

Rothko and Sugimoto set the pace at Pace

Monochromatic works by both artists will be juxtaposed in Pace's new London location

Grow, grow, Gagosian: Gallery expands to Brazil

Temporary space in Rio de Janeiro means the gallery’s total space is greater than Tate Modern