Openings
Saudi Arabia launches digital art institute as part of $62.2bn Diriyah complex
A vast new digital art institute, Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, opened earlier this month with "cutting-edge labs and immersive exhibition spaces"
Restored Notre-Dame to have its own museum in Paris's Hôtel-Dieu
Institution in historic hospital development could exhibit the heads of the kings of Judea from the cathedral's medieval statues
After 50 years, Milan’s new Modern art museum opens
Palazzo Citterio, part of the new Grande Brera cultural complex, is due to be inaugurated on 7 December
Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum partially opens—but Tutankhamun Gallery remains closed
Some of the galleries in the museum near the Giza pyramids are now open to the public
New arts district takes shape in Dallas’s northern suburbs
Three institutions have joined forces to transform a corner of the University of Texas at Dallas into a cultural hub
Musée Rodin to open outpost in Shanghai
The new venue will be run and funded by the private collector Wu Jing, whose Rodin works, ordered from Paris, will be on show
British Museum’s historic Reading Room opens to the public after 11 years
The space, once used by the likes of Karl Marx, is finally available for all visitors to the London institution to see
Gagosian will stage the gallery’s first exhibition in Seoul
'Derrick Adams: The Strip' will open just in time for the Frieze Seoul art fair
Collector Reinhard Ernst’s abstract art gets a new home in Germany
The Museum Reinhard Ernst, opening this week in the city of Wiesbaden, houses works by Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Damien Hirst and Neo Rauch
Sprawling new cultural hub takes shape in Detroit
Little Village arts campus, including church transformed into an exhibition space and a skatepark, aims to bolster Detroit’s cultural scene
Almost untouched for a century, Swiss painter Albert Anker’s rural home opens to visitors
The Centre Albert Anker in Ins, Switzerland, is set to open to visitors on 7 June with an exhibition on the artist's travels to Italy
Anger as Vienna's new Actionism museum shows child abuser's art
The inclusion of Otto Muehl, who was convicted of sexual abuses against minors, has triggered protests at the Vienna Actionism Museum, which opened in March
Gallery devoted to customs officer-turned-artist George Wyllie opens in Scotland
The Wyllieum is part of a new cruise ship visitor centre in Greenock
Nicolas Berggruen opens contemporary art space in Venice palazzo
It is the largest contemporary art venue to open in the city since the launch of François Pinault’s Punta della Dogana 15 years ago
Despite the no vote, Australia reinforces First Nations voices
While a referendum to recognise Indigenous people failed, the country’s cultural institutions are striving to reflect their lives
Former Victoria Miro senior director goes it alone with experimental London project
Matt Carey-Williams is looking to shake up the traditional gallery model by bringing “all the protagonists around the table in a slightly different way”
Jack Shainman goes big to start next chapter
Major expansion in historic Tribeca building inaugurates 40th year of gallerist’s career
The big museum openings and expansions of 2024
The Grand Egyptian Museum should open at last, while Masp in São Paulo gets a tower-block extension
'We want to excite people': Rugby star Maro Itoje and London dealer Khalil Akar on their new African art gallery
The gallerists aim to break down the white cube model and make the art world more accessible through their new roving venture
Austria confronts its Nazi past in refurbished Wien Museum
Following the British model, entry will be free for the newly expanded institution
Turkey opens new archaeology institute in quake-hit city
Researchers are hopeful the state-of-the-art Turkish Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Institute will enhance international collaboration in the field
Uzbekistan launches ambitious new cultural agenda
The former Soviet state, set to open the largest exhibition space in Central Asia, is also strengthening its international presence
Trigger warning! Museum of Censored Art in Barcelona to display banned works by Ai Weiwei and Goya
Museu de l’Art Prohibit is founded by the Catalan businessman Tatxo Benet
New £38.6m galleries at National Galleries Scotland to spotlight nation's art
The new spaces will bring together treasures by some of Scotland's best-loved artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries
New museum in Saudi Arabia bolsters collection after inking partnership deal with Centre Pompidou
The contemporary art institution is one of 15 “cultural assets” in development in the Arabian state’s AlUla heritage region
New Istanbul culture hub seeks to make art more public
ArtIstanbul Feshane opens in an expansive 19th-century military factory to reach more of the city’s 16 million inhabitants
Spain’s most ambitious museum project in decades unites royal collection in Madrid
Some are concerned that the new Royal Collections Gallery will be a blow to cultural tourism in the regions where a number of the works previously resided
A director's tour of the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery in London
Nicholas Cullinan shows us around the new-look museum after its three-year closure
Stormzy, Doreen Lawrence and Lucy Bronze: National Portrait Gallery reopens with a focus on the new faces of Britain
After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum reveals its $230m transformation
More than three years after it closed, the museum in upstate New York has made major upgrades across its campus and added more than 500 works to its collection