Bumps caused by chemical reactions can now be mapped by waving a hand-held device that one professor likens to a Star Trek “tricorder”

French museums operator Culturespaces has launched a space in South Korea and is planning another in Bordeaux in 2020

Hauser & Wirth has helped to develop “sustainable model” for Chillida Leku, which partially closed amidst Spanish economic crisis

The full-scale preparatory drawing for the Vatican’s School of Athens fresco is going back on view after a four-year restoration

From Paris to Chartres, US philanthropy makes its mark

Almost 300 Modern and contemporary works will be withdrawn amid funding dispute with the Jerwood Foundation

Closure comes just weeks after three key staff members announced their departures

Describing itself as a victim of fraud, museum says it cooperated with district attorney's investigation

New York institution plans to shore up its Neo-Classical façade and create outdoor spaces for the public

Senior curator Margaret Maitland reveals the stories behind some of the key exhibits in the new Ancient Egypt Rediscovered gallery

Pain held demonstrations at the Guggenheim and the Met over the weekend

$100m project highlights museum's growing commitment to contemporary art

The £80m masterplan has created 50% more public space and unveiled 6,500 forgotten objects

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