Conservation

Eike Schmidt unveils restoration and loans projects in Naples after losing Florence electoral bid

The director of the Museo di Capodimonte plans to restore 21 Renaissance paintings from the collection

Vatican launches AI-generated version of St Peter’s Basilica

Co-developed by Microsoft, the project also identified conservation issues at the world-famous church

'One of the most exciting unknown stories from the Napoleonic Wars': British escapee's military disguise goes on display in London

Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today at the National Maritime Museum

Churchill’s Monet—restored after many years of cigar smoke—goes on show in Courtauld blockbuster

Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish

Paul McCarthy throwing out vast installation no institution or collector stepped in to preserve

Last year, the artist put his 2013 installation “WS White Snow” on show in a Los Angeles warehouse in hopes of finding a long-term custodian

George Rickey sculpture partially collapses outside News Corp's New York headquarters

One of the work’s two hoop-like pendulums fell off outside the Manhattan offices of the Wall Street Journal publisher

Appeal to save Brighton Pavilion dome after ‘devastating’ damage discovery

Brighton and Hove Museums hopes to raise at least £10,000 to conserve the Grade I listed building

Campaigners celebrate scrapping of 'monstrous' Stonehenge tunnel scheme

Labour government cancels redevelopment in spending squeeze—but heritage bodies say conservation solutions are still needed

Lost self-portrait by UK painter Norman Cornish discovered behind bar scene

The undated work, which was during conservation work, is going on display in an exhibition at the Bowes Museum in County Durham

Castle in war-torn Yemen partially reopens

Emergency repairs at 11th-century fortress offer a ray of hope in country where dozens of historic sites are damaged or destroyed

Salisbury Cathedral conservation offers window into William Morris’s workshop

Edward Burne-Jones’s stained-glass work has been removed for conservation for the first time

‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris

More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”

Icom names Medea Ekner as director general

Ekner, who was appointed interim director general last year, has 25 years of museum experience in Sweden and New Zealand

Up in arms: Mexican archaeological bureau denounces damage to at least one mummy in Guanajuato’s famous museum

Local authorities respond that mummy deterioration is not new and even inevitable given a history of visitors “touching them or taking souvenirs, such as bits of clothing”

Kernel of truth: pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh’s Irises grew

His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October

Getting plastered: major conservation work begins on an extraordinary ceiling in Cornwall

Visitors have the unique chance to see the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the Long Gallery at Lanhydrock up close thanks to a scaffolding platform

Little-known mural Keith Haring made for an Iowa school goes on public view for first time

Created less than a year before the artist’s death, ‘A Book Full of Fun’ was painstakingly moved to the Stanley Museum of Art while the school undergoes renovation

St Mark’s architect warns that Venice’s historic houses are falling down

In an interview, Maria Piana, the architect responsible for the famous basilica, says urgent action is needed to save the city’s houses from rising water levels

Salvation for artist’s apocalyptic prophecy house

Isaiah Robertson's house covered in kaleidoscopic assemblages in Niagara Falls, New York, to open to the public as an art destination and community gathering space

Artist Mary Miss sues US art centre to block demolition of her Land art environment

Municipal officials recently approved the Des Moines Art Center’s plans to demolish “Greenwood Pond: Double Site”

Two climate activists charged for pouring red powder on National Archives display of the US Constitution

The Valentine’s Day protest was carried out by members of the environmental group Declare Emergency

Under the bonnet: €300,000 Ferrari-funded restoration completed on 13th-century Cimabue fresco

Maestà di Assisi, located in the saint's home town, which survived a deadly earthquake in 1997, has been returned to its original luminosity

Trinity College Dublin turns a page on Old Library conservation

A major €90m upgrade of the hallowed Long Room—and its 200,000 books—begins at the end of the year, while its famous Book of Kells gets an immersive makeover

Uproar over US art centre’s plan to demolish Land art environment by Mary Miss

The Des Moines Art Center in Iowa intends to demolish Miss’s environmental intervention, against the artist’s wishes

Venice city council proposes limiting tourist groups and banning loudspeakers

Latest measures are attempt to stem mass tourism and conserve the historic city

Revealed: the damp-proof lead layer protecting Rembrandt’s The Night Watch

Scientists discovered extra seam during Operation Night Watch conservation project at the Rijksmuseum

Private donations save Bologna’s Garisenda tower from collapse

City had been forced to cordon off leaning 12th-century structure

President Macron confirms Notre Dame opening date plus plans for a new museum

While worshippers will be permitted to enter the cathedral by December 2024, a revamp of the surrounding area will continue