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Italian police arrest 13 over €15m Verona museum theft

Suspects include museum’s security guard whose car was used as getaway vehicle

Hermitage to strengthen cultural ties with Iran

St Petersburg museum director pledges closer relationship as countries develop tourism links

BP ends 26-year sponsorship deal with Tate

Oil company blames “challenging business environment” rather than protests

Landmark Fabergé loan show scuppered by rising political tensions

Plans to send works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' extensive collection to Russia were put on indefinite hold after insurance costs shot up by $1m

Homegrown philanthropy fuels the new Speed Art Museum

Decade of renovation ends with marathon opening for expanded gallery

Football outscores culture as Qatar spending slumps

Museum layoffs and project suspensions gather pace in Qatar as oil revenue collapse continues

Stories of progress and property: on the European galleries at the V&A

The new installation raises important historical questions and brings much joy

Guy Cogeval will continue as the Musée d’Orsay’s director for another year

Contract renewed despite staff challenges to his leadership and ability to continue in the role

Will Elton John donate classic photography works to Tate?

More than 150 modernist images drawn from the musician’s collection will go on show later this year

Secret flight path of the Parthenon statue

Hermitage director reveals "circuitous" route that marble sculpture took from London to St Petersburg to avoid Greek seizure

Marc-Olivier Wahler announced as the next director of Broad MSU

The role has been empty since the death of founding director Michael Rush last year

Bede’s World medieval museum could re-open after funding meltdown

Local charity in talks to take over heritage site dedicated to the venerable religious scholar

Portland Collection opens to public for first time with rarely seen Michelangelo drawing

Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire will house one of the finest aristocratic collections in England

‘This is living antiquity’: the director of the Hermitage wants to rebuild Palmyra

The Russian institution’s collection of Palmyra artefacts could be used to reconstruct the ancient Syrian city<br>

Full steam ahead for Italy’s museums reform

Increasingly complex reorganisation is ambitious—and far from finished

Who will lead the Musée d’Orsay?

Some staff question president Guy Cogeval's fitness to keep the post

Sneak peek inside the Met Breuer

The New York museum opened to the press on Tuesday with a preview of the opening exhibitions

People of Geneva say ‘non’ to museum extension designed by Jean Nouvel

The proposal for the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is sent back to the drawing board after 54% vote against it<br>

Wim Pijbes to leave Rijksmuseum for new museum on Dutch coast

Multi-millionaire collector lures director away from Amsterdam to lead contemporary art space

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Israel Museum’s longstanding and well-connected director to step aside

In new role US-born James Snyder will continue to foster Jerusalem institution’s global relationships<br>

Gerhard Richter slams proposed closure of Germany's Museum Morsbroich

Plans to shut institution and sell its seminal Modern and contemporary works are "alarming" artist says

Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum returns Khmer statue

The sculpture, which was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex during the country's civil war, is the last of its kind to leave a US public collection

Met clarifies ‘pay what you wish’ entry after legal settlement

The museum puts three-year-old lawsuit over entrance fees to rest and will change its signage to ask for 'suggested admission'