Museums & Heritage
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
Nicholas Serota: The great transformer
The Tate director knew Tate Modern would need to expand before it even opened. It has happened sooner than expected
From the archive, 1 October 1990: 'We did not pursue any party political nonsense on the Museum Island'
On the 25th anniversary of German reunification, we republish our first ever front-page story, in which East Berlin museums chief Günter Schade defends his record and reveals how East German museums sold in order to buy
Museums unite in campaign to save massive land art project
Nevada Desert site around Michael Heizer’s City is under threat
Oei Hong Djien, the controversial collector aiming to build a history of Indonesia’s Modern art
New film shows a scene dogged by lack of institutional support and alleged fakes
Comment: The Tate should take BP’s money—and ask for more
Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact
Hitler’s ‘Renaissance’ jewels fashioned in the 19th century
Rijksmuseum’s examinations reveal truth about pendants
Director of Pushkin wants to work with London’s V&A and help Moscow’s homeless design museum
The Pushkin design satellite will have both historic and contemporary design galleries
Musée des Confluences in Lyons pays tribute to city’s great collector Émile Guimet
Guimet's collection will be displayed in a new museum, which has 2.2 million objects and space for temporary shows
V&A refurbished gallery reopens after conservators work on 19th-century plasters
Cleaning uncovers makers’ pioneering techniques and casts new light on plaster casts
Move to protect Heizer’s City from development
Nevada Senator has introduced a bill to preserve the land surrounding the mile-and-a-half-long land art project
Director of V&A proposes network of museums to stop terrorists looting objects in Syria and trafficking them for sale in the West
V&A fights back against Islamic State
V&A Cast Court restored to Victorian splendour
£2m, two year refurbishment to open next month
Will the Chancellor back V&A’s Olympian vision for a cultural quarter?
Art and design museum with space for London’s biggest exhibitions could open by 2020, subject to funding
Tate Turner catalogue delayed again
The Tate still has 21,000 works to publish online—but those already posted suggest it will be worth the wait
V&A proposal for new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
V&A East could be vast
Painting due to be removed from museum wins reprieve after tests prove it is a genuine Old Master
Not fake, but ‘tarted up’
Tate celebrates return of restored Rothko
The product of 9 months of restoration leaves no traces of graffiti ink
Young collectors collaborate for MoCA
The Director’s Council comprises 25 to 30 names from the fashion, entertainment and finance industries.
London’s big growth spurt: Major galleries are reaching for the skies with £500m-worth of building projects
As the Tate and British Museum extensions reach their full height, institutions say business plans stack up
Tate unveils Turner Prize shortlist
Three are graduates of the Glasgow School of Art













