Emmanuel Macron has thrown his weight behind a grandiose €800m renovation plan, including building a subterranean complex around Leonardo's Mona Lisa

Security guards at the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum are urging the public not to visit during the action

The items—which include a helmet discovered by playing children—belonged to members of the lost Dacian civilisation

The Paris museum’s leadership is hoping to raise money for a grand project involving reimagined exhibition and hospitality spaces and a subterranean tunnel under the museum to connect it all

To make progress in returning countries’ heritage taken by previous generations, museums must take a pragmatic, ethical stance

The Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture was designed by British architect Asif Khan

Morocco’s largest private museum has undergone a redesign and, in the wake of the 2023 earthquake, reinforcements to protect it against any future damage

Shelomo Selinger, who endured nine concentration camps, has donated the works ‘Desire for freedom’ and ‘Shoah (Holocaust)’

The Oklahoma skyscraper’s crypto-enthusiast owners had attempted to auction the tower after reneging on an agreement to sell it to a local company that restores historic buildings

An exhibition of works by photographer Zoë Law, mounted after a donation towards the gallery’s £40m makeover, has raised questions about how matters relating to donors are handled and assessed

Under former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in October was replaced by Claudia Sheinbaum, 14,000 artefacts were returned over a period of eight years

The cherub paintings that once looked down on Paul Revere will soon be back in all their original glory

New study suggests rise of ancient city Tiwanaku coincided with major volcanic event in Lake Titicaca Basin's vicinity

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has criticised an executive order signed by the new president, claiming his plans could harm local communities

The 72cm terracotta model depicting the mythical sea god Triton offers an important link to the Italian artist’s thought process, says a curator at the Amsterdam museum

The immersive, hologram-filled Ram Katha Museum in Ayodhya is planned to open next year, while the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation struggles to secure funding for a mosque and museum nearby

A new film focuses on two paintings Stern was forced to sell as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s, which ended up at the Düsseldorf City Museum

Following successful stints at museums in Virginia and on Florida’s Gulf Coast, De Groft’s career became mired in the Basquiat fakes fiasco

President Donald Trump has returned the statue—one of an identical pair—to his office, but it has not been a simple journey

The Edinburgh institution is leading the way for cultural institutions to reduce their environmental impact with a deeply-embedded, long-term strategy

The piece, one side of which is an enamel copy of a 16th-century woodcut, the other side crafted in Ethiopia, reveals how European icons became incorporated into the African country’s traditions

Trump spoke to donors at the National Building Museum one day after JD Vance hosted supporters at the National Gallery of Art

The spa complex was thought to have been owned by a powerful politician

The London-born curator, who has previously organised shows at events such as the Venice Biennale, has been appointed as the artistic director and chief curator of the museum in Uzbekistan’s capital

The gifted works, collectively valued at C$10m ($7m), come from Vancouver collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe and include pieces by Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and more

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco recently acquired the work, which is being exhibited at the de Young Museum ahead of Martin Luther King Jr Day

The 9.3-mile bike and pedestrian path will connect the Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art, Mass Moca and other cultural and historical sites in western Massachusetts

A Chinkana, or labyrinth, with three branches has been found beneath the ancient city of Cusco

For the first time, the list of threatened heritage sites raises awareness beyond Earth’s atmosphere

Calder Gardens, which will be housed in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, has also appointed a senior director of programmes