Museums

Curators' tour of the new Tate Modern

As gallery attracts more than one million visitors in opening month, Catherine Wood, Achim Borchardt-Hume and Matthew Gale pick the works that take pride of place

National Museum of Oman opens in Muscat

Institution to focus on the display and conservation of the sultanate’s cultural heritage from prehistory to the present

Bass museum to fill expanded space with shows by Ugo Rondinone, Mika Rottenberg and Pascale Marthine Tayou

The architects were tasked with the difficult job of increasing exhibition space without adding to the building

BP extends culture sponsorship at four UK institutions

The oil giant will invest £7.5m over the next five years, renewing criticism from environmental groups

This is what the planned V&A East building in Olympicopolis will look like

Detailed images reveal the design for the new museum outpost in east London

San Francisco museums board president Dede Wilsey steps down

The move follows a $2m wrongful termination settlement connected to a $450,000 loan to a former employee

Artist Rashid Johnson joins Guggenheim’s board of trustees

The appointment marks the first time a practicing artist has been on the board since the founding director Hilla von Rebay

Turmoil at Honolulu’s Bishop Museum

Fears abound for the collection-rich, cash-poor Hawaiian institution

Times are a-changing for Italian museums

Deadline passes for ad seeking nine museum directors, but who will get the jobs?

Nanjing finds its cultural voice with third international art festival

New Baijia Lake Museum will host a more streamlined event than in previous years

French luxury goods billionaire François Pinault makes German debut

His collection will be shown at Museum Folkwang, with an entire gallery dedicated to Cindy Sherman

Suhanya Raffel appointed executive director of Hong Kong's M+ museum

Sydney-based curator will be instrumental in building the collection and acquiring key art, design and architecture works

Agustín Arteaga appointed new director of the Dallas Museum of Art

The Mexican scholar, who replaces Maxwell Anderson, has worked closely with many major international institutions

It's raining visitors at Lacma

Random International's Rain Room and Mapplethorpe show boost attendance to 1.4 million <br>

Major Danish museum returns looted antiquities to Italy

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen will hand over around 500 items acquired in the 1970s

New galleries at National Museum of Scotland present thousands of exhibits

Napoleon’s sister, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Dolly the Sheep feature in the art and science displays

Valeria Napoleone's all-female art collection hits the road

The London-based philanthropist partners with Museums Sheffield to show works by women artists

Victoria and Albert Museum wins UK's glittering award

Art Fund judges award Museum of the Year to London institution for McQueen show and new European galleries <br>

Ptolemaic galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art get a facelift

Mummies, statuaries of royalty, and a 72-foot long Egyptian Book of the Dead are among the treasures on show

Orhan Pamuk’s manifesto for museums

Author and museum founder delivers video message to international museum conference in Milan

Louvre Abu Dhabi to host summit on culture versus terrorism

French president François Hollande builds global coalition to protect cultural heritage

Garage opens Russia’s most extensive programme for disabled visitors

This year’s programme to focus on increasing access for the Moscow museum's deaf audience

International Council of Museums conference: institutions asked to think beyond collections

Participants in Milan will ponder the relationship between museums and the cultural landscape<br>

Uffizi gets digital

The museum plans to digitise its entire collection of Greek and Roman sculptures

Macaws, crowds and an expanded canon: inside the new Tate Modern

Rehang of the collection places unfamiliar names alongside established ones while performance takes centre stage<br>

Impressionism leaps off the canvas and into the Bronx

Exhibition brings a period garden and 20 US Impressionist works to New York