Museums & Heritage
More refugees to be trained as tour guides at Oxford University museums after £1m gift from Saudi foundation
Funding from Alwaleed Philanthropies will support Multaka project working with 200 refugees and asylum seekers over the next five years
How China's museums are cosying up to commercial galleries for big-ticket exhibitions
Dealers are eagerly filling curatorial gaps in new museums with shows for their artists, but does the market hold too much sway?
Tate Britain director defends museum against accusations of ‘cancelling Hogarth’
Critics round on exhibition’s alternative interpretations of Hogarth paintings, describing them as "wokeish drivel"
Garage Museum expands in Gorky park with move into historic Hexagon pavilion
Sanaa architects masterplan turns 1920s site in Moscow into vast exhibition space and library
Australian painter's beloved Bundanon estate to be reborn with 32 guest rooms and a bushfire-resistant gallery
Arthur Boyd's rural home—which hosts his collection and Australia's largest residency programme—will reopen after a major expansion in early 2022
How a Milan museum won the battle to show the world’s most important private collection of Futurist art
Famous Mattioli collection loan will make Museo del Novecento “undoubtedly the most important centre for Futurist art” when it goes on display next spring
Biden administration moves to block oil and gas exploitation near Pueblo cultural sites in New Mexico
Chaco Canyon, a Unesco World Heritage site since 1987, was to be opened to drilling under a Trump administration plan
Restoration of Courtauld Gallery's Botticelli altarpiece yields surprising new discoveries
Technical studies on neglected painting cast valuable light on the workings of the Renaissance master's Florence studio and on the question of attribution
A director’s tour of London’s revamped Courtauld Gallery
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces are back on view after a major building transformation and “looking better than ever”
Oxford University lists 145 looted Benin objects in collections
The director of the Pitt Rivers Museum says the report is a step in the restitution process
Qatari sheikh's treasures go on show at 'mini-Versailles' in Paris for the next 20 years
Collection of Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani finds a long-term home at the Hôtel de la Marine, the former repository of French royal furniture, art and jewels
‘We had to give it our best shot’: inside the Getty’s record-setting Caillebotte acquisition
The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art brings in new curatorial leadership
René Morales of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and Jamillah James of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will fill key vacancies at the MCA
MFA Boston workers who unionised go on strike
More than 200 workers at the museum are striking for a day in protest of stalled contract negotiations
London museum wants to move controversial slaver statue to 'less prominent space'
Museum of the Home trustees vote to relocate the sculpture after UK government pressured them to keep it
Boris Johnson says British Museum trustees must decide fate of the Parthenon Marbles
The British Prime Minister met with Greek leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who reiterates that the ancient sculptures should be shown at the Acropolis Museum
Discovery of Turkish 11,400-year-old village challenges ideas of when and why humans first settled down
Excavations at monumental site Karahan Tepe, near the Turkish-Syrian border, suggest that society was established before the dawn of agriculture
Temple reliefs provide a rare glimpse into how artists made ancient Egyptian art
Less-experienced artists carved body parts, while master sculptors worked on faces among archaeologist's discoveries at the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
Going underground: English poet Alexander Pope’s hidden grotto to be saved
A relic of national importance, the man-made cave is all that remains of his villa and gardens—and is only accessible through a school dining hall
Ancient Krishnas are reunited with their body parts
A collaboration between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the National Museum of Cambodia revealed that each boy god had been given the other’s limbs during earlier conservation work
Review: Hong Kong's highly anticipated M+ museum opens—but can it withstand political pressure?
This world-class institution is a magnificent achievement, but it faces a profoundly different political environment today from its inception 25 years ago
Skateboarders fight back against Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie ban
Museum says ban protects the building and sculptures—but has attracted criticism for ostracising younger generation
Experts raise alarm over fate of Georgia's leading art museum amid political upheaval
Concerns persist that a government-backed renovation of the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi could endanger its collection of 139,000 ancient and modern works
Running at 7%: Tate Modern's visitors slumped from 5.7 million at its peak to just 361,000 in 2020/21
Annual financial accounts show extent of fall in visitor numbers at national museums
Berlin museum acquires vast collection of antisemitic objects amassed by German man who helped Jewish people hide from Nazis
Wolfgang Haney, who died in 2017, assembled 15,000 postcards, leaflets, photographs and more bearing witness to the persecution of Jewish people
London’s National Gallery reveals slavery history in new research—including its founder’s ties to Caribbean
The data, published today, found 67 individuals connected to the slave trade including John Julius Angerstein who helped to establish the museum's collection
Slaves' room unearthed in Pompeii reveals lives of marginalised citizens
Previous discoveries made during the excavation of the Civita Giuliana villa include a ceremonial chariot and the bodies of two men
Humboldt Forum to remove medallion honouring far-right donor
Ehrhardt Bödecker’s family requested the removal after his “militaristic, anti-democratic and in some respects, radically right-wing and antisemitic” views became public
Removal of Welsh slave trader painting from National Museum Cardiff is ‘censoring history’, says BBC broadcaster
Newsreader Huw Edwards will now be invited to the museum to hear more about the reinterpretation process
Smithsonian Museum of African Art removes Benin bronzes from display and plans to repatriate them
“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says