Museums & Heritage

Tibetarchive

The world’s largest museum of surviving Tibetan painting goes online

Shelley and Donald Rubin’s website invites contributions from museums, collectors, and scholars

Tate Britain's new thematic display revealed in 'RePresenting Britain' as international works move to Bankside

The first stage of splitting the Tate Gallery into a museum of British art and a museum of international modern art takes place this month

Decisive moments: the history of photography at the V&A

How photographers from 1845 to the present have reflected time

Ninetieth-birthday tributes to Cartier-Bresson at the V&A

The exhibition includes many highlights from the immense collection

Tatearchive

Tate forms partnerships with regional venues across Britain

An effort to increase the public's exposure to the National Collection

Booksarchive

The Victoria and Albert Museum. The great Kensington Kunstkammer

The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books

Vast Bourgeois for the new Tate as the first of five commissions

Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall

Tatearchive

Bloomsbury: a rather faded modernity

Two scholarly exercises in assessing the roles of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

Tatearchive

How to raise £166 million for the Tate: “Money follows energy”

The museum’s low-profile fundraising has achieved the biggest capital sum ever for a UK museum, but who is to pay for the running costs?

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Special loan arrangements set up between Tate Gallery and Yale Center for British Art.

Twenty US works are to be shown at Millbank for its inauguration in March 2001

Archivesarchive

V&A off limits to women in 1913?

Museums considered banning female visitors at height of suffrage movement

Colonial Williamsburg: Authentic, fake or 1920s dreamland?

Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at how the Colonial Willamsburg Foundation tackles the problems of shifting historical perspectives

The rebirth of Florence's Villa Stibbert

Director Cristina Aschengreen-Piacenti has pioneered the project, refusing to allow the residence of a great Anglo-Florentine collector to fade from memory

June 1999archive

Two mega-donations for London museum expansions

With £20 million each, plans progress for the British Museum Great Court and the V&A's spiral

Columbus Museum of Art, The Age of Enlightenment reaches Ohio

A major loan show from Dresden’s Picture Gallery concentrates on paintings rather than decorative arts

David Smith's 'Wagon II' bound for the Tate

Purchased from artist's family, it is the most important work still in private hands

A whole new neighbourhood of art: Tate Modern invigorates the South Bank

Giles Waterfield, former director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at this witty and non-judgemental enterprise, one of many visual art developments already around the future Tate Gallery of Modern Art

Subcontinental splendour at the Victoria & Albert Museum

An exhibition of Sikh treasures casts new light upon the art of an Indian culture better known for its war-like tendencies

Publishing Tate's colourful past to celebrate its centenary

Histories and anecdotes of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum

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Large Lottery grant to Tate Gallery to buy contemporary art

£6.2 million goes to the new Tate at Bankside before next years opening.

Collectorsarchive

Collector interview: Peter Maenz. “It felt like home”

The former Cologne art dealer has given, lent, and sold parts of his collection to Weimar, in eastern Germany

Bacon's rare drawings to go on show at the Tate

The Tate unveils its previously unknown Bacon drawings to the world while two US museums present new views of the blockbuster British artist

The Kimbell explores Picasso and Matisse's (not so) gentle friendship

As the Tate and MoMA prepare their mammoth exhibition of works by the two artists in 2002 the Kimbell steps into the ring first with a similar, but smaller, show of its own