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

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

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

The French Culture Ministry has budgeted €30m over three years to improve security at local museums and has issued a 33-point action plan

The latest museum in the Guggenheim network will open on 11 December 2026, twenty years after its original 2006 announcement

US president’s executive order comes after the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History was grilled by a congressional subcommittee

The discovery deep inside a sinkhole in Playa del Carmen has prompted a new research project to date and protect the remains

A 5.1-magnitude quake on 18 July caused the collapse of the roof and part of the facade of the colonial-era Iglesia Apóstol Santiago, one of the oldest churches in the Peruvian highlands

Chief curator Cathleen Chaffee and deputy director Jillian Jones will serve as artistic director and executive director, respectively

The decision comes after calls by Ukraine to protect the archaeological site, which is now managed by a Russian Orthodox cleric appointed by Vladimir Putin

After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa

Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027

The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July

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Trent Park House of Secrets tells the story of how mainly Jewish refugees covertly transcribed conversations from the building's basement

The museum in La Paz had been closed for a year; its new permanent collection exhibition includes a mummified girl repatriated from the US and an Andean sculpture that was stolen by a Swiss traveller in the 19th century

Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials

The Unione Sindacale di Base says it has formally signalled a labour dispute—usually a first step towards possible strike action—as Italian institutions remain above 30C for weeks

From the future of the Arts Council to AI, there are several complicated issues for the incoming culture secretary to tackle

The curator moves to Minnesota after more than ten years at the Baltimore Museum of Art

The Preserve Act specifically sites Washington, DC’s Cohen Building—the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”

As the outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease continues on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a new city report shows more art institutions affected

Salvador Salort-Pons, a noted Velázquez scholar, says he made the discovery by chance while preparing a related exhibition at the museum

The donation—from the museum’s long-time patrons Anne and Arthur Goldstein—includes works by Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman and Takeshi Kawashima

Exhibitions on chintz, ceramics, and pop culture will headline in South Kensington, while South Asian contemporary art and Vivienne Westwood will feature at the museum's east London and Dundee locations, respectively

The culture minister also announced the return of a Picasso bust to the heir of the Jewish dealer Alfred Flechtheim

A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration

Archaeologists hope that further research of the site will reveal more about the lives of the people who lived in the ancient city of Thebes

Discovered alongside unique formulas for the movements of the sun and planets, the attribution proves the importance of such work more than 1,000 years ago