Museums & Heritage
Art heaven or hell? Museum’s epic £15m tunnel brings to life Dante’s Divine Comedy
Alfredo Jaar's new immersive installation inside a tunnel at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania simulates heaven, hell and purgatory
Austria promises to return ancient artefacts to Russia that were taken as war trophies
An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War
National Trust wrongly accused of asset-stripping while government fails to keep its word
The Trust is negotiating endowments with the Treasury for five major country houses in its care
Will the V&A buy this £7 million roundel?
Export license could be extended until November
A mystery for the ages: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist
The world’s greatest unsolved art theft continues to obsess—and stump—investigators
In damning online critique of British Museum's ethics, trustee Ahdaf Soueif announces resignation
Prominent Egyptian-born writer cites the institution's BP sponsorship, treatment of workers and its silence over restitution as key issues
Venice has no official plan for how to deal with climate change
A new report by Icomos details how the science/culture divide is stopping world heritage coming to the aid of climate change and urges speedy action
A Getty lifeline for classical mosaics in the Middle East and North Africa
As the Getty winds down its decade-long Mosaikon project, it leaves behind a legacy of expertise in a region threatened by looting and political unrest
Moscow Kremlin Museums say ‘bravo!’ to restorers
State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation
V&A to mount major Iran exhibition in face of US sanctions
Museum’s director Tristram Hunt says securing loans and sponsorship is “more of a challenge” as tension grows between Trump and Tehran
A former Unesco chief denounces its failure to protect Venice at Baku meeting
“Where have the ethics and sense of a global mandate to protect the world’s heritage gone?”, asks Francesco Bandarin
Cultural divisions deepen in Jerusalem amid Israeli election campaign
Christian institutions are calling attention to their marginalisation in wake of Israel’s focus on Jewish-centric policies
Top five acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide—from Lee Krasner's record-setting painting to a Hogarth conversation piece
Hungary presses ahead with sprawling culture hub in Budapest city park
Vast collections centre for 300,000 objects inaugurated as construction continues on ambitious museums quarter for Hungarian capital
In a first, Unesco gives Frank Lloyd Wright buildings World Heritage status
US architect's distinctive designs are among 29 designees recognised for their “outstanding value to humanity”
New museum tells Palestinian stories in the centre of US politics
One-room space in Washington, DC, focuses on art and culture rather than “catastrophe”— but a section is dedicated to the 1948 mass exodus
British Museum director endorses controversial sponsor BP as part of future vision
The oil company will support one exhibition at the museum next year, but not a show dedicated to the people of the Arctic
Unesco visit brings new growth to Roberto Burle Marx’s home and garden
Brazil funds major renovation of landscape architect's lush estate, which could become a World Heritage site in 2020
A rich tapestry of English life unfurls in Oxford with restoration of 400-year-old woven maps
Three huge silk and wool works depicting England’s Midland counties have been painstakingly preserved by the Bodleian Library and the National Trust
Banksy on a barge: world's first floating street art gallery makes waves on Paris's Seine
Moored besides the Pont des Invalides in Paris, Fluctuart will open with an exhibition by the Brooklyn-based artist Swoon
St Fagans National Museum of History wins Art Fund Museum of the Year award
The Cardiff museum is the first Welsh winner of the £100,000 prize, beating other finalists including V&A Dundee and Pitt Rivers Museum
State of Massachusetts investigates reported racism at the MFA Boston
"Experiences like this are literally taking away from academic growth", says principal of students who filed a complaint during a class trip
Going undercover: Scotland's leaky Mackintosh treasure shielded by 197-tonne chainmail box
Hill House in Helensburgh has been covered to protect it from the rain while National Trust makes conservation plans
'Game-changer' museum to open in Istanbul in time for city's biennial
Turkish non-profit contemporary art space Arter is relocating to a state-of-the-art exhibition space in Dolapdere district
Uffizi recovers Nazi-looted painting from Germany
The Dutch still-life heads back to the Florence museum after bold campaign by director
Nan Goldin’s activist group storms the Musée du Louvre
Pain protestors demand that museum officials rename 12 rooms named after the Sackler family
Letters: Does the V&A still believe in education?
The Association of Art Historians on the National Slide Library's proposed move from London to Leicester
Barbara Hunt McLanahan, the executive director of the Children's Museum of the Arts, has died aged 55
Her tenure reflected her "steadfast belief in the transformative power of art", the museum says
'Life in the shadow of a death world': new Holocaust installation shines a light on Auschwitz survivors' stories
The open-air exhibition structure has been designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind
Plan to merge Uffizi and Accademia in Florence stokes row over Italian museums reform
Critics say the move by Italy's populist coalition government will compromise the autonomy of museums