Museums are “remarkably unwilling to acknowledge their own status as democratic institutions, the bedrock of civic society and our most important public spaces”

The Smithsonian’s Modern and contemporary art museum in Washington, DC revealed eight recent acquisitions that will be displayed in the garden when it reopens this autumn

New research has confirmed the site of the giant ancient metropolis, but further archaeological work has been delayed due to issues such as travel restrictions

The 17th-century Bernardine Monastery was one of several buildings hit in the Ukrainian city’s historic centre, which is a Unesco World Heritage Site

Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who travelled from present-day Guyana to Amsterdam and back

The scheme will aim to address imbalances in the cultural sector, explore transcultural perspectives and engage with communities

Some scholars however have questioned the wording used in the new labels in the Ancient Levant and Egyptian galleries

As increasingly extreme weather threatens cultural sites, archaeologists are turning to technology to try and record them before they are lost forever

The New York institution opens its $82m expansion with a huge exhibition of works by more than 200 artists, from Salvador Dalí to Precious Okoyomon

Currently director of Tate Liverpool, Legg will be responsible for the RA’s exhibitions, collection and public programme

Six volcanic-stone boxes found at Templo Mayor reveal a ceremony linked to Moctezuma I’s imperial expansion

The initiative’s fourth edition in 2030 will be devoted to transpacific cultural exchange, with grant applications opening to institutions across eight Southern California counties this June

A $7m conservation project has focused on mitigating the engineering issues of the architect's masterpiece as well as preparing the building for a changing climate

The Vancouver-based real estate tycoon has gifted works by two Canadian artists and two US artists to Canada’s national art museum

The snuffboxes, made in 18th-century Berlin, come from the Gilbert Collection, and will go on display in a new gallery space at the V&A in South Kensington

Guardian investigation highlighting 263,000 remains is a wake-up call for government, says Oxford professor

The Gochman Family Collection has hired Laura Phipps as its director and will open a venue in Katonah, New York, this autumn

Such income streams are “riskier” according to a new report by the National Audit Office

Set to overtake Lyons as France’s third-largest city, Toulouse is also gaining cultural momentum, with a boom in visitors to its venues, and renovations of two major museums

Museums and cultural organisations must embrace our vital role in bringing people together, whether friends or strangers

The Flemish master's largest-known work, in London's Whitehall, will now be accessible at close quarters, thanks to a newly-installed lift

Paintings by Monet, Matisse, Dalí and Picasso were snatched in a cinematic heist from Rio de Janeiro’s Museu da Chácara do Céu in 2006

Paul Ehorn, an 80-year-old shipwreck hunter, has finally located the long-lost luxury steamer Lac La Belle

Cultural sites and museums in Israel have closed and have been instructed to move their collections into bomb shelters

Angulo’s work was devoted to decolonising the museum, anti-racism and reparation with a special focus on diversifying narratives to include more Black and Indigenous voices

Founded by Alexander Wang and his mother Ying, the Wang Contemporary debuted at the landmarked 58 Bowery with a MSCHF installation timed to Lunar New Year

Records show how masters retained power over enslaved people even after emancipation

The city’s building boom has revealed many artefacts and human remains, but the pace of development has made study and preservation challenging

The Kontempo Center for Contemporary Art will be led by Reuben Keehan, the longtime curator of contemporary Asian art at the Queensland Art Gallery

Nicholas R. Bell, who previously led museums in Washington, DC, Calgary and Connecticut, will take the helm of Canada's most-visited museum