Museums & Heritage

Elvira Dyangani Ose appointed artistic director of Cape Town's Zeitz MoCAA

The former director of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona will follow in the footsteps of the late Koyo Kouoh when she takes up her new role in October

San Diego Museum of Art lays off 11 employees

The museum claimed financial hardship, even as it goes ahead with a starchitect-designed revamp

Archaeologists uncover ancient, live-work ceramic studios linked to Moche civilisation in Peru

Excavations at the Cerro Mayal site in the north of the country show it was an important production facility for Moche ceramics around the seventh century

Christian Bernard, founding director of Geneva’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, dies aged 76

Over a four-decade career, the French art critic and curator profoundly influenced contemporary art institutions in Switzerland and France

New museum in Argentina honours Lola Mora, a pioneering female sculptor

Immersed in nature, the sustainably designed Lola Mora Cultural Center in San Salvador de Jujuy celebrates the late artist and her practice

Ten essential works to see in Normandy while the Bayeux Tapestry is on loan

The northern French region offers much to see beyond its famous tapestry, ranging from a rare Caravaggio and one of Duchamp’s nudes, to Monet’s garden and a 60th anniversary tribute to the Normandy landings

Newly discovered standing stones in France shed light on the ancient megalith builders

Archaeologists in Carnac, northwest France, have used aerial drones to identify previously unknown stones buried beneath the surface

Earthquake damages Colombia’s tallest church

A 7.4-magnitude quake caused a tower to collapse at the beloved Manizales Cathedral

Bottoms up: vast Roman shipwreck filled with ancient wine amphoras discovered near Sicily

“Extraordinary site” could reveal “interesting story about trade routes”, maritime archaeologist David Gibbins says

Remains of colonial hospital and church discovered in Lima’s historic centre

Walls, floors, human burials and 18th-century tiles have been uncovered in what was once the Hospital and Church of the Holy Spirit in Peru

Office block developers fight with heritage campaigners over London’s historic Square Mile

The Liverpool Street railway hub and 1 Silk Street are two of the latest contested developments in the heart of the capital, where new skyscrapers are clamouring to be built

Uffizi Galleries in Florence announce ‘unprecedented’ €50m revamp

The programme will include the redesign of displays, the creation of new exhibition space and the installation of new lighting systems

Comment | What happened to George Lucas’s vision of a museum for ‘the people’?

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s new admission and membership fees are tone-deaf and self-defeating

Raise a glass: long-hidden image of soldier returns to Pieter de Hooch painting

The figure has been painted back onto the work at the Maurithuis after being removed at some stage in its history

Lidar analysis reveals more than 20,000 pre-colonial earthworks under Amazonian rainforest

A new study based on aerial surveys suggests the pre-Columbian Aquiry civilisation had a much more developed and dispersed footprint than previously thought

Seven Smithsonian museums shut down due to cooling system failure

The closure affected a number of the institution’s buildings along the south side of the National Mall in Washington, DC

Louvre to lend Islamic art treasures to the Smithsonian

Upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will feature 26 works from the Louvre, some of which have never been shown in the US

Valerie Hillings appointed inaugural director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Currently the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Hillings worked on the Abu Dhabi project from 2009 to 2018

The Australian Museum returns remains of Rapa Nui ancestors to Easter Island

The restituted human remains include 17 skulls and one sample of hair, which were taken from the island during a German expedition in 1882

Fra Angelico’s earliest surviving altarpiece returns to Fiesole after restoration reveals hidden throne

The work, created by the young friar-artist and updated later by Lorenzo di Credi, has undergone careful repair and cleaning

London mayor Sadiq Khan calls for city's public museums to remain free to enter

‘Free museums and galleries are a fundamental part of London life’, says the long-serving Labour mayor in a new op-ed

Reconstruction of legendary Sutton Hoo ship takes shape

The seventh-century Anglo-Saxon burial ship is due to take to the water in May 2027, following a lengthy reconstruction process working from decayed remains

‘It would represent an irreversible loss to Scotland's cultural record’: potential sale of Glasgow art centre’s archive sparks outcry

There have been protests and a petition since the archive of Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) was listed among the assets of the insolvent organisation

Royal Museums Greenwich workers vote to strike over pay and working conditions

The strike across the east London museums will occur on 11 and 12 August as Prospect union pledges to step up industrial action across the heritage sector this summer

Collector Bernardo Paz plans new museum in Brazil next-door to Inhotim

Although no longer involved with Inhotim, Paz appears to be reviving its model of art pavilions in a botanical landscape

UK artist Conrad Shawcross sounds alarm on Jodrell Bank Observatory funding cuts

The Unesco World Heritage site, located in northwest England, is home to the UK's largest telescope

Family of donor who helped establish Canadian Museum for Human Rights to pause support over Palestine exhibit

The Asper family’s foundation last donated to the museum in 2023, and Gail Asper says she has indefinitely paused a personal gift of C$50,000 over a display about the violent displacement of Palestinians

Comment | The Obama Presidential Center aims high, like a Gothic cathedral

The building’s epic art commissions play a big role, compelling visitors upwards

Lessons from Notre-Dame inform reconstruction of Copenhagen Stock Exchange building

After fire destroyed half of the historic red-brick structure in 2024, its owners’ ambitious goal is to rebuild even faster than the French did with the Paris cathedral

Sites in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine among 25 new additions to Unesco’s World Heritage List

Three new properties were inscribed under emergency procedures and simultaneously placed on the World Heritage in Danger List