Restoration

Pharmaceutical company pledges to restore beauty at the Hermitage

The Hungarian firm Gedeon Richter to fund three-year project to restore works from the Russian museum that relate to the concept of female beauty

World Monuments Fund gives $1m for post-quake restoration of Mexican archaeological site

Monte Albán, the ancient capital of the Zapotec people, was damaged by earthquakes in 2017

Can the Glasgow School of Art be saved after second fire?

Anger as focus turns to cause of blaze that ripped through Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece

Canada’s 1950s Venice Biennale pavilion gets a facelift

The upgrade to the Modernist building and its surrounding landscape has resulted in a new visitor route planned for the Giardini

In pictures: Bayreuth's Margravial Opera House reopens to the public

The Unesco World Heritage Site had been closed for restoration since 2012

Urgent action needed to save Russia’s wooden architecture

Grassroots activists are leading a campaign to preserve the country’s unique, but sadly neglected, built heritage

Murillo's dramatic altarpiece back on display in Liverpool after a major clean-up

The restored Virgin and Child in Glory at the Walker Art Gallery reveals Spanish master's "exquisite skills"

Lasers and water gel used to restore Medieval altarpiece from Rimini

The treatment of Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus museum's fragile alabaster ensemble could pave the way for future loans

Portrait believed to be Mary, Queen of Scots discovered beneath 16th-century painting

Figure found using X-ray photography during research by National Galleries of Scotland and Courtauld Institute of Art

Germany stumps up €400m for Prussian palaces and parks

Funding will benefit Potsdam’s Sanssouci and Berlin’s Charlottenburg palaces

Royal Academy of Arts lifts Burlington Gardens veil with end of revamp in sight

Façade restoration nears completion in project to unite the RA campus in time for 250th anniversary in 2018

How departing director Perdita Hunt saved the Watts Gallery from near death

She led a seven-year, £10m project to restore the buildings, rehang the galleries and conserve the collection

Fundraising campaign launched to transform Sidney Nolan’s UK home into an art centre

His trust needs £2.3m to create artists’ studios and a permanent gallery devoted to the 20th-century Australian painter

Emergency repair work to Buckingham Palace’s State Dining Room nears completion

Reopening set for summer but complete overhaul of palace costing £369m will take a decade

Prada boss says private firms must chip in to restore Italian heritage damaged in quakes

Patrizio Bertelli made the plea at the unveiling of Vasari's Last Supper, which is back on display 50 years after it was damaged in the Florence flood of 1966

Italy spends €1bn in historic boost for cultural heritage

Sites including Pompeii, Paestum and the earthquake-stricken city of L’Aquila get major cash injection

Kinky Calder gets restored in time for UK debut

Artist’s grandsons waived fees to conserve his largest work, which goes on show at Tate Modern this week

V&A unveils new Japanese display with ancient treasures and a Sony Walkman

Refurbished gallery gives more space to Modern objects but older artefacts still take pride of place

Southern barbarians rise to fight again

Rediscovered Japanese panels on show after two years of painstaking restoration in specialist studio

‘Rush to rebuild’ puts Philippine churches at risk

Experts question restoration techniques following earthquake

Paris mayor gives city’s decaying churches a Hail Mary—to the tune of €80m

But heritage groups say the funds fall far short of the real cost of restoration