The franchise’s ambitious global expansion will continue in 2020 with launch of London gallery

After €13m expansion, French museum brings together works by painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and sculptor Emile-Antoine Bourdelle

We look back at the biggest stories of the year

Research groups have designed new technologies and initiatives for the V&A, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza

Electronic visas pave the way for ever greater visitors numbers, creating major logistical problems at Tsarskoe Selo and the Hermitage

Hesse McGraw has served at San Francisco and Nebraska art institutions

“Museum” features reproductions, artefacts and even Salvator Mundi pasta sauce

Museum officials say the decision is unrelated to protests over the Sackler family's ties to Purdue Pharma

Stamatina Gregory will take the new position as the LGBTQ art museum undergoes a series of changes

Museum is in discussion with trade union after 'final offer' 1.5% salary increase was deemed too low

Rediscovered maro 'ura will go on show at Museum of Tahiti and the Islands on long-term loan from 2021

Several institutions have closed, others have cut back their opening times as protests against Macron's retirement reforms sweep the country

“Bon vivant” took over at the museum's villa and expanded its mission after J. Paul Getty died in 1976

Joint exhibition programme under way between Shanghai and Los Angeles will soon involve Qatar Museums

Cultural institutions have embraced mutual benefits of collaboration, despite challenges of communication and censorship

"It's censorship", the artist says of curators' denials to suspend work that is part of show on the artistic legacy of the Gulf War

Substance was used during a rally calling for the government to meet the protestors' “five demands”

Local politicians block construction on cultural quarter backed by right-wing government, citing “enormous impact on environment”

Saxon government acknowledges “years of disregard for their dignity and importance to their communities of origin”

This is the first time the Florentine museum has formed a long-term partnership with a foreign institution

The future House of Abrahamic religions in Abu Dhabi shows how the UAE differs from Saudi Arabia

The London museum will close between 2020 and 2023, but the announcement was buried in the fourth paragraph of a press release

Launch of revamped government-run museum to go ahead as planned following $119m facelift

Palais de Lomé is the west African country's first major contemporary art centre and is unique on the continent for being financed by the state

After breaking in through a window at the Green Vault, the intruders grabbed three royal jewellery ensembles containing diamonds and pearls

Privately funded Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art says its forced closure follows “a long period of disputation” with the local authorities

Restoration will remove centuries of grime and stabilise the sculpture at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

Museum's little known, 6,000-strong Modern and contemporary art collection includes a ball gown made of 2,000 stamps

From studio spaces to museums, a future complex holds the promise of galvanising artists

Members of the climate activist group BP or not BP? blocked entry to the museum's show dressed as statues based on Greek mythology