The large piece of oak is around 6,000 years old–2,000 years older than Stonehenge

Every museum visit produces $905 in social benefits per visitor, according to a study conducted at 11 art institutions

The art historian Manuel Segade will join the Madrid institution while Tate international art curator Sook-Kyung Lee takes the reins in Manchester

The recovered items also include a Corinthian bronze helmet and four Roman-Byzantine gold coins

President Putin ordered the transfer of the medieval masterpiece from the State Tretyakov Gallery to the Russian Orthodox Church despite protests from restorers

The new education annex of the National Air and Space Museum will be funded through a $200m gift from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

The artistic institution Dar Jacir was established by the Bethlehem-born artist Emily Jacir to give creatives from Palestine an outlet

The recently-closed exhibition drew 650,000 visitors in its four month run

The museum has been under pressure for more than a decade to break off its affiliation with the oil and gas corporation

Plus, the damage to heritage in Italy following the devastating floods and Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum work

The lands withdrawn from future oil, gas and mining claims around Chaco Culture National Historical Park include more than 4,700 known archaeological sites

Cameroon has set up a restitutions committee to work with the museums

Heirs claim they were loaned and want them back; the museum says decision not yet made

The annual gathering organised by the American Law Institute and co-sponsored by the Smithsonian took place recently in Philadelphia

After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population

More than three years after it closed, the museum in upstate New York has made major upgrades across its campus and added more than 500 works to its collection

Many of the gifted works will go to European institutions, while others are bound for Boston, Dallas and Melbourne

The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements

The Art Fund and London Gallery Weekend have launched a focus group with the aim of helping public institutions acquire works and organise exhibitions

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

Restitution follows the return of 350 Neolithic and Byzantine objects from the same source to Greece

The museum has also restored Jacobs’s first film, “Orchard Street” (1955), which will be displayed in a gallery in November

“White Balls on Walls” shows how the staff of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum have tried to implement change amid a shifting social landscape

The Art Newspaper goes on an exclusive tour around the building which will open to the public in 2025

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”

The two protesters have have been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of conspiracy

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

First exhibition in the south coast city for Turner Prize-winner and Brighton resident Helen Cammock has now been cancelled

The announcement that President Putin will return Andrei Rublev’s masterpiece has sparked criticism from experts due to its fragile condition

Admission will be raised by €1 to support relief efforts in the affected Emilia-Romagna region