Evidence of encroaching development, looting and a new coal depot near the site poses major threats to its status—and its future

Treasure trove of ancient Mesopotamian heritage—ransacked after 2003 Iraq invasion—was closed during anti-government protests in 2019

Palais de Tokyo is building a “care centre” for art and wellbeing programmes, while new workshops launch at Louvre-Lens

With Covid-19 cases down sharply from January’s peak, art institutions from the Smithsonian to the Seattle Art Museum are no longer requiring visitors to mask up

Palestinian Museum is using a $480,000 grant from the Aliph Foundation to document and conserve traditional embroidered dresses known as thobes

Founded in 1931, Guild Hall holds a collection of more than 2,000 artworks by Jackson Pollock, Thomas Moran and others

Charity, which helps to raise funds for the Russian institution, has halted “building cultural bridges between the UK and Russia”

An expedition team has located the famed shipwreck in what has been described as a "milestone in polar history"

Restitution agreement must still be approved by the museum's Board of Regents

From next month, the institution will be open for seven days a week again and timed tickets for general admission will also be dropped

Floodwaters rose to second-floor ceiling of Lismore Regional Gallery, at the “epicentre” of the disaster for the New South Wales town

The settlement, if approved, would also place limits on any statements made by museums as they remove the Sackler name

Klaus Biesenbach, Olafur Eliasson and Anne Imhof are organising a two-day event at the museum

Ian Blatchford received the Pushkin Medal from Russia's president in 2015 after he led an exhibition of Soviet spacecraft and artefacts

Artefacts had been "smashed into pieces" by Isis militants when they occupied the Unesco World Heritage site as a training camp

The UN body is monitoring heritage sites by satellite and plans a meeting with Ukrainian museum directors to safeguard collections

The newly discovered emblem goes back on show on the 500th anniversary of the day King Henry VIII first met his future second wife

The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone

New York institution condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its statement on the resignation

Cimam is demanding "greater clarity" over the reasons for Alistair Hudson’s proposed removal

Museums and institutes devoted to Ukraine and its diaspora are experiencing a surge of support and interest brought on by war in the homeland

The frieze, discovered in Oaxaca in 2018, contains glyphs symbolising themes related to superstition and social hierarchies in the Zapotec and Mixtec cultures

Imperial Fabergé eggs and Impressionist masterpieces are some of the works currently in shows in Europe

Egyptian government officials say the long-awaited antiquities museum near the Pyramids of Giza will probably open in November this year

Despite facing major risks, key cultural figures in Russia are speaking out against the war

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the Museum of Local History in Ivankiv had been set on fire by Russian forces

Italian elegance has been applied to pieces collected over 400 years for the revamped archaeological gallery, which opened in the Palazzo Reale this month

Cromwell Place opens up the former studio of the Irish artist, where he painted prominent Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiators

Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial described the Russian invasion as "an act of barbarity that will be judged by history", while the Arsenal culture centre in Kyiv calls it a war “against all democratic states”

The exhibition chronicles efforts by architects in the region to adapt the tenets of international modernism to their material and cultural realities