Museums & Heritage

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s director will depart before institution opens

George Lucas, the “Star Wars” film-maker and co-founder of the museum, will take on a programming role following Sandra Jackson-Dumont’s departure

On Parade: Berwick-upon-Tweed communities go up in lights, ten times life size, on historic Hawksmoor building

Matthew Rosier's film "Parade" projects border town's diverse community back to itself as National Heritage Lottery Fund awards £4.5m grant for restoration of Berwick barracks as arts centre

National Gallery launches new learning centre, the first bicentenary capital project to open to the public

The architect Hannah Lawson and the London museum’s education chief Karen Eslea consulted school children, teachers and parents to give the Roden Centre for Creative Learning a welcoming character

British Museum and Science Museum under increasing pressure to scrap BP sponsorship after oil giant drops climate targets

The pair are the last two major cultural institutions taking funding from fossil fuel companies

As Siena’s art takes to the world stage, the Italian city is undergoing a renewal

New York just closed an exhibition on Sienese art and London is about to open another. But there is also plenty of activity in Siena itself, with a museum renovation and research shedding new light on some famous works

Manhattan’s New Museum will reopen this autumn following $82m expansion

The new seven-storey, 61,930 sq. ft building will effectively double the museum’s gallery space

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A descendant of people trafficked aboard the slave ship Clotilda on learning from history’s unsung heroes

Jeremy Ellis’s ancestors were among the 110 enslaved people who survived the last known Transatlantic voyage in 1860

Brooklyn Museum workers protest mass layoffs and alleged union-contract breaches

At least 100 people, including local politicians, gathered on Tuesday night to put pressure on museum leadership

Chanel becomes sponsor of Norton Museum of Art’s artist residency programme

Florida’s largest art museum joins forces with the luxury fashion brand to host three artists this year

Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution

Per the terms of the Met’s agreement with the Greek government, the cast-bronze antiquity will return to New York next year for a special exhibition

Orlando Museum of Art and family of late director fired over Basquiat forgery scandal drop lawsuits

After Aaron De Groft’s death last month, the museum and his family do not find it “prudent or cost effective” to continue litigation

Cattelan's £4.8m gold toilet stolen in five minute raid and split into smaller parts, court hears

The court case of three men charged with the 2019 theft has begun in Oxford, and is expected to last four weeks

Three years on from Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s art world figures are keeping up the fight for their country’s culture

From an artists’ handbook addressing life under occupation to exhibitions combatting colonial narratives, the examples of resistance are various—despite growing pressure caused by US funding cuts

Archaeologist behind discovery of pharaoh's tomb says he may have found another

Piers Litherland, who led the team which discovered Thutmose II's tomb, believes this latest chamber could contain the ancient king's mummy

‘One night I slept under my desk’: Getty leader Katherine Fleming reflects on solidarity in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires

The chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust shares her experience of the disaster, how the institution is supporting artists in the aftermath and the important capital projects that are on the way

National Trust paint archive promises to bring secrets to light

Thousands of historic paint samples—'miniature cultural assets packed with answers to questions yet to be asked'—will be analysed at Kent facility

Culture and heritage ignite the regeneration fire in Sheffield

The Steel City is excavating its buried medieval castle and building new cultural spaces

Three in five small UK museums and galleries fear closure amid declining revenue, new research suggests

The survey of independent cultural attractions found that three quarters of respondents were concerned for the future of the wider sector

Architect Lina Ghotmeh wins competition to revamp British Museum’s vast Western Range galleries

Ghotmeh beat five architect-led teams to land what the museum has called “one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world”

The Netherlands to return 113 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

It is the latest example of a country announcing that it will repatriate a group of these objects, which were looted by the British as part of a punitive expedition in 1897

Why newly appointed museum directors fail, and how to avoid it: Kaywin Feldman’s new book on leadership

The director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, offers sage advice on how non-profits can best manage personnel changes at the top

UK government aims to keep cash-strapped cultural venues ‘up and running’ with £270m funding package

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy announced today that funding will be shared between arts venues, museums, libraries and heritage buildings across England that are in “urgent need of financial support”

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia reverses ban on admission fees

Government funding for the Sydney institution, which is already closed one day a week and is now charging A$20 entry, remains the same as in 2008

Shifting sands of diplomacy between Europe and Middle East see institutions struggling

Cultural collaborations have become more centred outside European countries, leaving bodies such as Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe adrift

Archaeologists unearth final undiscovered pharaoh’s tomb of King Tutankhamun’s dynasty

The unearthing of King Thutmose II's tomb has been described as “one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years”

Chinese ceramics take centre stage at new museum in Portugal

The Albuquerque Foundation will show works from Brazilian collector’s holdings in a historic quinta

Laser mapping reveals massive ancient Zapotec city in Mexican forest

Long thought to be a fortress, Guiengola has been revealed as a sprawling city thanks to airborne lidar analysis

Serge Lasvignes, former president of Centre Pompidou, has died aged 70

The Centre Pompidou extended its international reach during Lasvignes's tenure

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Migration season: Banksy’s animal art heads to new London Museum

A Piranha sentry box will be displayed at the new institution, previously known as the Museum of London