Museums

Kunstkammer museum to open in Adelaide, filled with classic porcelain, clocks, textiles and paintings

The late collector David Roche amassed more than 3,000 objects, now on view to the public in Australia

Hayward Gallery moves into a temporary home across the Thames as its Southbank base is overhauled

Jeremy Deller and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster will show new works in off-site video art exhibition

National Gallery of Art names next Mellon lecturer

Historian to explore frontier spirit in American art

Will Helsinki ever get a Guggenheim?

Doubts grow over crucial government funding as the once-friendly Finnish political climate deteriorates

A curator's tour of the new SFMoMA

Three curators pick under-the-radar works they are excited to have on show at the newly expanded museum

SFMoMA shows off its hard-won treasures

The San Francisco museum reopens with something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue-chip

Berlin street art museum gets under way

Culture minister pronounces ‘insane’ Urban Nation project perfect for Berlin

Study tracks the Louvre's 'hot spots'

Visitors’ spent the most amount of time near the Victory of Samothrace—a popular rest stop—and the ticket counter

Two Moscow museums to merge amid controversy

The new institution's director says the goal is efficiency

Xavier Bray appointed new director of the Wallace Collection

The specialist in Spanish art organised the acclaimed Goya portraits show at London’s National Gallery last year

Bronx Museum to undergo facelift

The project is expected to cost around $25m, but will not include an expansion

Louvre and Cairo museum strike antiquities co-operation deal

Joint exhibitions and sharing of conservation expertise planned

Little museum, big gift: Renaissance Society receives $1.5m in pledged funding for artist commissions and shows

The University of Chicago kunsthalle, content to stay small, focusses on producing new work

Greenpeace protest shuts down British Museum for four hours

The institution was closed for safety reasons after demonstrators scaled the front pillars

‘It’s a bigger story’: Frances Morris outlines her global vision for Tate Modern

A monumental extension and a shake-up of the museum’s displays will see more international names, live art and female artists

Palestinian Museum opens—with no exhibition or collection

The inaugural show is postponed, but a satellite exhibition will go ahead this month in Beirut

Helsinki embraces museum building ‘boom’

City Museum is the latest institution to get an upgrade in the Finnish capital, but will the Guggenheim follow?

Helsinki welcomes time travellers—and offers a glimpse into the heartbreak of others

City Museum re-opens this week with special projects after €13m development

The four major challenges that await the British Museum’s new director

With big boots to fill, Hartwig Fischer has his work cut out at an institution that pulls in nearly seven million visitors each year

Lawnews

From drones to fair use: the hottest topics in museum law

Nationalistic appropriation, brand control in reality TV shows, YouTube take-downs: American Law Institute’s annual course covered it all

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel makes last-ditch effort to save George Lucas museum

Star Wars creator could see plans thwarted by case brought by local non-profit Friends of the Parks

Mahmoud Hawari appointed new director of long-awaited Palestinian Museum

Archaeologist and cultural heritage expert will take charge of programming and building a collection

Creating value around women artists: the chief curator’s view

Moca’s Helen Molesworth explains why the gender imbalance in museums persists and what can be done to remove it