Museums

Centre Pompidou’s chief US fundraiser awarded France’s top honour for boosting acquisitions of American art

The Beaubourg gallery also appoints a new curator tasked with discovering young Chinese artists

Grand Palais closes as the Seine continues to rise

Huang Yong Ping’s Monumenta commission among the shows temporarily shut down in a “preventive measure”

From illicit art to fresh blood: four of the biggest challenges facing museums today

Museum professionals gathered in Washington, DC, to survey the state of the field at the annual AAM conference

Chongqing today, Wuhan tomorrow: Long Museum continues its long march inland

The private museum has opened its first outpost outside of Shanghai

Louvre and Orsay shut down due to flood threat

Both institutions have enacted emergency plans to protect works, as days of rain put the country on high alert

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?