New branch of Rome's national contemporary art museum opens next week in a restored 18th-century palace

Maverick museum chief Kenneth Clark helped shape the Southampton City Art Gallery's collection

Conservation of the panels—bought by Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick—has been National Trust's "most lengthy and expensive textile project"

Venues in Washington, DC and New York will require masks and many will have reduced hours

Former 1921 dime store, which peacefully desegregated its lunch counter in 1960, will house an Alamo museum

A seasoned director with an emphasis on the social role of museums, she replaces Jean-Luc Martinez as the Louvre's president-director on 1 September

Coronavirus restrictions have dramatically altered the visitor experience, but the changes run deeper than mask-wearing and one-way systems

The labour chapter would represent 130 curators, conservators, front-desk staff and others

We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences

New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution

Prolonging the pain will not help the culture sector—a formerly $1bn industry that supported 36,000 full-time jobs—bounce back, leaders say

John Kingman, the London museum's deputy chair, will temporarily step into the role

Victor Arnautoff’s large-scale 1960s mosaics on public buildings in Mariupol are threatened by neglect and a “decommunisation” campaign

Staff labour organisers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reflect on their accomplishments

We discuss Matthew Barney, Igshaan Adams, Eileen Agar and Louise Bourgeois

The Khalil Museum, with its fabled Impressionists in a mansion by the Nile, has reopened after an 11-year renovation—without Vincent’s flower still-life

Opening exhibition looks back at the global emergence of the Chinese art world at the 2000 Shanghai Biennale

Auction at Sotheby’s yields promising yet mixed results for museum’s drive to fund collections care

Closed for five months longer than planned, the renovated house-museum can finally unveil expanded spaces, restored treasures and new acquisitions

Following backlash over proposed chronological reorganisation of London museum, specialist departments will now remain

The Fontevraud Modern Art Museum, housed in a 12th-century monastery’s former stables, will preserve more than 800 works donated by collectors Martine and Léon Cligman

Job stability and ongoing inequities have become even more pressing during the pandemic, workers say

The privately funded Dutch branch of the State Hermitage Museum has attracted 10,000 donations from the public but director says "we're not done yet"

The $66m project includes expanding galleries, creating research and education spaces and restoring its landmark 1908 building

Experienced divers and casual bathers alike will gain access to ancient marine monuments, which remain where they were found on the seabed

"Independence cuts both ways," UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden warns museums and heritage bodies

Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows

The museum looks to a “new era” after a difficult history, including long delays in the opening its new home and the termination of two of its directors by the Culture Ministry

As the museum commits itself to diversity, E. Carmen Ramos, a curator of Latino art, will be “the principal architect of the visitor experience”

Museum says the move is intended to promote “truthful narratives” and promote social change