The museum is currently housed in the university's former library building

Aleksandr Shkolnik was added to list of sanctioned individuals by the UK and Australia, and is the first Russian museum director to be targeted

Five objects worth more than €3m have been confiscated by authorities as part of a wide-ranging global investigation involving former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

Five years ago President Macron took the museum world by surprise when he announced a then-revolutionary restitution plan. Now the country’s politicians are at odds about how to implement it

The unionisation follows similar decisions made by the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and others

The painting was sliced from its frame and torn from its backing in a daylight robbery at the University of Arizona Museum of Art on Thanksgiving Day in 1985

Inspired by the ever-popular internet guessing game Wordle, Artle challenges your art historical knowledge with images from the National Gallery's vast collection

Many critics of the project remained underwhelmed by the lack of clear vision for the $789m museum

Hay Castle will open to the public for the first time following a £7m restoration project

The venture, made in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and several African art and culture scholars, will examine historical sites in sub-Saharan Africa

The museum will be built on the site of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, which focuses on contemporary art

The proposed museum replacing the current building has been called a “vanity project”

Exeter museum has held various objects belonging to the 19th-century Blackfoot leader Chief Crowfoot since 1878

A $118m project to expand the Museum of Chinese in America in New York kicks off amid protests centring on plans for a massive new “skyscraper” jail

Around 100 demonstrators rallied outside the institution during its gala, hoping to give greater urgency to ongoing negotiations with museum leaders

Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman

The museum claims the works' removal was due to a scheduling issue, but the curators involved in the selection described the images' omission as "disrespectful and unjust”

American Museum of Natural History renovates its Pacific Northwest cultures gallery after 112 years

The head of artist copyright society Dacs will replace Iwona Blazwick, who served as head of the East London institution for 20 years

Bët-bi, planned for 2025, will be designed by architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara

Current director of Gropius Bau will oversee opening of the long-awaited institution in the United Arab Emirates

British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum now under scrutiny of Cambodian government

Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques

After a seven-year refurbishment, the Paris museum is fully wheelchair-accessible and ready to welcome back visitors on a journey from the first to the 15th century

As stringent restrictions on art sales return after a pandemic reprieve, American institutions seem more polarised than ever

The ancient inscriptions were in a hidden tunnel complex found by looters before archaeologists carried out a rescue mission

Institutions in the running include Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham and Horniman Museum and Gardens in London

The latest National Trust for Historic Preservation list of endangered sites includes a cave of ancient pictographs in Missouri and the Hamptons home of painters James Brooks and Charlotte Park

Online articles by staff at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine show how items resonate with the war-torn country