Museums & Heritage
Munstead Wood, a masterpiece of Arts and Crafts, is acquired by the National Trust
Government funding helps acquire Surrey house and garden that launched the global careers of the architect Edwin Lutyens and the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, whose home it was for nearly 40 years
Looted artefacts linked to disgraced British dealer Robin Symes returned to Italy
Restitution follows the return of 350 Neolithic and Byzantine objects from the same source to Greece
Museum of Modern Art acquires more than 200 works by experimental film-maker Ken Jacobs
The museum has also restored Jacobs’s first film, “Orchard Street” (1955), which will be displayed in a gallery in November
New documentary gives inside view of art museum’s attempts to become more diverse
“White Balls on Walls” shows how the staff of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum have tried to implement change amid a shifting social landscape
Victoria and Albert Museum's ambitious east London storehouse is finally complete
The Art Newspaper goes on an exclusive tour around the building which will open to the public in 2025
Newfields and the Indianapolis Museum of Art seek to turn a corner after ‘triple tragedies’
The museum sparked scandal in 2021 with the phrasing of a job posting, but the new leader of its parent organisation says “we’re not a racist institution”
Climate protestors who targeted US National Gallery of Art’s Degas sculpture face prison time
The two protesters have have been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of conspiracy
National Archaeological Museum of Naples opening new branch in the city’s famous Real Albergo dei Poveri
MANN's new partner museum will provide an additional 10,000 sq. m of exhibition space, allowing the people of Naples to finally see the full range of the largest collection of classical archaeology in the world
University of Brighton to close Brighton Contemporary Centre for the Arts citing ongoing fee freeze, ‘soaring energy costs’ and ‘generationally high inflation’
First exhibition in the south coast city for Turner Prize-winner and Brighton resident Helen Cammock has now been cancelled
Russian authorities confirm that famous 'Trinity' icon will be transferred to church despite protests from restorers and art historians
The announcement that President Putin will return Andrei Rublev’s masterpiece has sparked criticism from experts due to its fragile condition
Italy announces museum ticket price hike as part of €2bn flood aid package
Admission will be raised by €1 to support relief efforts in the affected Emilia-Romagna region
Artist Julius von Bismarck engages with his chancellor forebear at newly reopened Berlinische Galerie
Following a four-month closure, the Berlin museum reopens today with five exhibitions
Breaking a taboo: religion is being invited into three major museums
Working with Visual Commentary on Scripture, London’s National Gallery and Berlin’s Bode Museum and Gemäldegalerie are uniting art and theology
Castello di Rivoli Museum says director Christov-Bakargiev will leave at the end of 2023
The museum is seeking a new director to start in January 2024
Museums in four states win top US prize
The Institute of Museum and Library Services bestowed its top honours for 2023 on museums in Florida, Ohio, Wyoming and California
Rijksmuseum unveils Richard Long exhibition thanks to biggest-ever donation
Dutch museum has received €12.5m gift to help support free-of-charge, sculptural exhibitions in the gardens
Strike at New York's Hispanic Society ends after nearly two months
Workers at the museum ratified their first contract after many months of negotiations with leadership
Curators in the climate crisis: who are the new museum hires turning art institutions green?
From the Serpentine Galleries to the Sainsbury Centre, in the UK and beyond, institutions have hired designated directors to head up matters environmental
San Diego-based collectors hand over pre-Hispanic artefacts to Mexican authorities
The 65 heritage objects in question include a glass with a clay pedestal dating from the Mesoamerican Classic period and a ceramic bowl dating from 200CE
American Museum of Natural History’s soaring, $465m new science centre opens
The new Gilder Center, designed by architecture firm Studio Gang to resemble a towering canyon, adds 230,000 sq. ft and some clarity to the museum’s vast Manhattan campus
Wartime museum on remote Scottish island one of five UK cultural centres shortlisted for world's biggest museum prize
Winner of the Art Fund's Museum of the Year prize will receive a £120,000 award at a ceremony on 17 July
An invisible €171m renovation: Dutch royal palace reopens after five-year-long underground project
Designed as a royal hunting lodge in 1686, Het Loo has been transformed with a vast new entrance hall and multiple exhibition spaces hidden beneath the courtyard
Saudi Arabia announces two new major museums as part of AlUla heritage site
An institution for contemporary art and another dedicated to the incense trade route are the first "cultural assets” launched as part of the region's 15-year plan
Hunt under way in Sheffield after precious artefacts stolen from city centre museum in daybreak heist
Police concerned ornate blades taken from Kelham Island Museum could be sold on the black market in the latest of a series of attacks on institutions in the UK city
Museums close and turn into shelters amid deadly floods in northern Italy
At least 13 people have died and thousands have been evacuated as the Emilia-Romagna region battles its worst floods in 100 years
Changing institutional culture from the inside out: why more and more US museum workers are forming unions
Employees across the sector are turning to unions to fight for better wages, benefits and working conditions
Putin now orders return of Russia's most precious icon to the church
Following the restitution of the silver Nevsky sarcophagus last week, the handover of Andrei Rublev's 15th-century Trinity has sparked concerns among conservators
British Museum drops reference to the Rosetta Stone from title of major refurbishment plans
Move may reflect sensitivities around the museum's possession of the ancient Egyptian object
After sudden closure, Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts reopens
The art and film space had seemingly closed permanently in April, but community donations will allow its cinema to resume operations
Berlin museums to look into origins of archaeological collections
Research could lead to restitutions if artefact were found to have been excavated or exported illegally