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Comment | What happens behind the scenes at the museum is what really matters

From delicate cleaning to forklifts, the unseen, but crucial, investment often goes unnoticed

Cash-strapped Dutch museums nervous about future despite last-minute VAT reprieve

Institutions breathed a sigh of relief after the government withdrew tax-raising plan—but remain worried about possible funding cuts

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‘Art is a meeting place’: inside Israel’s first official museum of Arab culture

Starting life as a private gallery, the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery is now receiving public funding to collect and display art by Israeli, Arab and Palestinian artists

Secretive underground exploration group assists with missing museum artefacts in Melbourne

Members of clandestine group retrieve objects from drains after burst pipe at Australian museum’s storage facility

UK export bar placed on rare 17th-century Fairhaven Panels worth £1.6m

Museums must match the price of the pearl and shell piece which sold at Sotheby’s last year

'We haven’t seen positive things yet': UK arts bodies urge clarity on funding six months after Labour victory

With local authorities in crisis and Tate running a deficit, leaders of British organisations hope for much-needed capital investment

London museum guards threaten further strike action

Workers employed by contractor Wilson James demand better wages and additional leave

How Amsterdam’s Drift Museum is working to create more energy than it uses

Sustainability features at heritage-listed former railway factory will include heating system that stores summer warmth for use in the winter months

The most exciting art museum openings and expansions of 2025

The construction of Saadiyat Cultural District is due to be completed, while the Studio Museum in Harlem will unveil its new 82,000 sq. ft building

Sacred tunic belonging to Alexander the Great may have been identified

Analysis shows that clothing discovered in royal tombs of Vergina in Greece could be linked to the king rather than his father

Harem work removed from show at Qatar's Arab Museum of Modern Art

Renowned Turkish artist İnci Eviner says her work was pulled "without further explanation and apology" and describes the move as censorship

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The Year in Review: escalating art attacks and responses to war

This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of art to unite diverse groups of people

Restored Notre-Dame to have its own museum in Paris's Hôtel-Dieu

Institution in historic hospital development could exhibit the heads of the kings of Judea from the cathedral's medieval statues

Shanghai’s ‘Meowseum Nights’ a sell-out hit with cat owners (and cats)

Events encouraging visitors to bring feline companions highlighted Ancient Egypt show

Remembering Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, groundbreaking director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Charismatic leader who steered the museum through a difficult period in the 1980s, and later became a university vice-chancellor

Rijksmuseum launches AI tool to help make connections in 800,000-strong collection

The “art explorer” project allows the Dutch museum's vast holdings to be more searchable

Turmoil at Slovak National Gallery as department heads offer their resignations

Development comes after 177 staff also threaten to quit in protest at the ministry of culture’s handling of the country’s leading art institution

Pro-Palestine boycott of Goldsmiths CCA ends after gallery cuts ties with donors

Students ended the action, which had led to the London institution’s temporary closure over the summer, after the names of Candida and Zak Gertler were removed from one of the CCA’s galleries and its donor list

This month's museum acquisitions round-up: Nan Goldin, Artemisia Gentileschi and Picasso

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

‘A house of opportunities’: the changing fortunes of England’s largest country home

Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?

The Louvre’s department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art is taking shape—at last

Years in the making, plans for the department were shelved a decade ago; now it is due to open in 2027

Eike Schmidt unveils restoration and loans projects in Naples after losing Florence electoral bid

The director of the Museo di Capodimonte plans to restore 21 Renaissance paintings from the collection

Vienna Art Week celebrates 20th anniversary with Rembrandt—and lots of gold

Event, which was the first of its kind in the world and now involves more than 20 institutions, is run by museums rather than dealers

Just a year after opening, Serge Gainsbourg’s house museum hits financial trouble

The Graffiti-strewn building became a pilgrimage for devotees of the singer when it opened 32 years after his death—but despite healthy ticket sales, the institution has racked up huge debts, with its backers accused of mismanagement

Victoria and Albert Museum reveals opening date and programme for ambitious new east London storehouse

The museum has also announced details of the much anticipated David Bowie Centre, due to be housed on the same site

'Courageous and resilient individuals': why the Illinois Holocaust Museum is embracing virtual reality to share survivors’ stories

New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community

Will the Warhol Museum’s $80m plan pop?

Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum has big dreams for its Pop District project—but critics say the institution is putting all its soup cans in one basket