Legislation allows non-national museums established as charities to transfer property on a “moral basis” depending on its value

Sonnabend Collection in Mantua—home to the collection of the late dealer Ileana Sonnabend—includes works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol as well as contemporary artists

John-Paul Stonard argues the case for honouring Constable at London's soon-to-be expanded National Gallery

The fee, announced ahead of today's budget, would apply to overnight stays, with England's mayors and local leaders able to decide what revenue should be spent on

The contractual work was sold for €25,000 to appoint curator Mi You to the institution's board

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ planned overhaul of regional councils promises stability, but delivers confusion for the cultural sector

Museum in Bayonne, in the southwest of the country, has spruced up its historic building and doubled its display area

The newly opened museum currently allocates a percentage of its daily ticket limit to both Egyptians and foreigners

A leading neurologist is working with the Amsterdam museum to see if making or encountering art can help ease symptoms of the degenerative disease

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide, including the enigmatic “Portrait of Frederick”

After more than a decade of planning, the US state’s largest ever capital investment in the arts opens with a new pavilion named for Rothko and a gallery devoted to Black artists

This summer a team of archaeologists resumed their work on a site dating back to around 600BC, known for its three well-preserved Doric temples

The Uffizi in Florence is restricting selfies, and New York’s Frick Collection bans all photography—but other museums encourage them

The legendary institution, which took seven years to build, reopens with an exhibition devoted to the works of Tom Lloyd

Some museums have closed, falling victim to Covid-19 and a slowing economy, while others are scaling back or regrouping

Research shows that the solutions long used in a German castle are a cheap, effective conservation method with advantages over silica and air-conditioning

The colossal archaeological museum is set to welcome international dignitaries to a ceremony this Saturday, including opening its prize attraction, the Tutankhamun Gallery

The institution has doubled the size of its former space to display more of its collection of 117,000 works, plus newly commissioned sculptures and installations

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long history

Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar

Plans for the museum, located in the former Comèdia cinema, have attracted criticism from the city’s left-wing politicians

In 2023 the Mütter Museum was at the centre of a scandal around the repatriation of Indigenous remains. Now, as the dust begins to settle, a new leadership team is looking to the future

Ibraaz, funded by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation and opening on 15 October, is a multi-disciplinary art space in Fitzrovia that seeks to address “urgent questions”

In an era of stretched public coffers and cuts, endowments can offer financial resilience and independence. But they are likely to prove out of reach for smaller museums, which may find it hard to accrue donations for longer-term projects

As the Israel-Hamas war enters its third year, institution leaders discuss cancelled collaborations, working amid trauma and the art world's “deafening silence”

The first show at the new space, opening on 1 October, is inspired by the Eero Saarinen-designed US Embassy in Oslo

Many institutions are adopting a practice of “strategic silence” to protect funding and avoid censure

Sara Raza, who is also the space's first artistic director, has big plans to reach young people, inspired by her time at South London Gallery

Following years of strife and multiple leadership changes, will these important institutions meet the rigorous standards set by the American Alliance of Museums?