Museums
How Amsterdam’s Drift Museum is working to create more energy than it uses
Sustainability features at heritage-listed former railway factory will include heating system that stores summer warmth for use in the winter months
The most exciting art museum openings and expansions of 2025
The construction of Saadiyat Cultural District is due to be completed, while the Studio Museum in Harlem will unveil its new 82,000 sq. ft building
Acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered 19th-century self-portrait, Van Gogh’s ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’ and a painting by a contemporary Tanzanian artist
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Sacred tunic belonging to Alexander the Great may have been identified
Analysis shows that clothing discovered in royal tombs of Vergina in Greece could be linked to the king rather than his father
Harem work removed from show at Qatar's Arab Museum of Modern Art
Renowned Turkish artist İnci Eviner says her work was pulled "without further explanation and apology" and describes the move as censorship
The Year in Review: escalating art attacks and responses to war
This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of art to unite diverse groups of people
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
Shanghai’s ‘Meowseum Nights’ a sell-out hit with cat owners (and cats)
Events encouraging visitors to bring feline companions highlighted Ancient Egypt show
Remembering Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, groundbreaking director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Charismatic leader who steered the museum through a difficult period in the 1980s, and later became a university vice-chancellor
With an $11m Leonora Carrington cat woman sculpture, Eduardo Costantini adds another jewel to his Buenos Aires museum
In recent years the Malba founder has emerged as one of Latin America's leading collectors
Rijksmuseum launches AI tool to help make connections in 800,000-strong collection
The “art explorer” project allows the Dutch museum's vast holdings to be more searchable
Turmoil at Slovak National Gallery as department heads offer their resignations
Development comes after 177 staff also threaten to quit in protest at the ministry of culture’s handling of the country’s leading art institution
Pro-Palestine boycott of Goldsmiths CCA ends after gallery cuts ties with donors
Students ended the action, which had led to the London institution’s temporary closure over the summer, after the names of Candida and Zak Gertler were removed from one of the CCA’s galleries and its donor list
This month's museum acquisitions round-up: Nan Goldin, Artemisia Gentileschi and Picasso
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
‘A house of opportunities’: the changing fortunes of England’s largest country home
Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?
The Louvre’s department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art is taking shape—at last
Years in the making, plans for the department were shelved a decade ago; now it is due to open in 2027
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
Vienna Art Week celebrates 20th anniversary with Rembrandt—and lots of gold
Event, which was the first of its kind in the world and now involves more than 20 institutions, is run by museums rather than dealers
Just a year after opening, Serge Gainsbourg’s house museum hits financial trouble
The Graffiti-strewn building became a pilgrimage for devotees of the singer when it opened 32 years after his death—but despite healthy ticket sales, the institution has racked up huge debts, with its backers accused of mismanagement
Acquisitions round-up: Pierre Subleyras’s papal commission, Lasansky's horrors of the Holocaust and Archie Moore's sprawling family tree
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Victoria and Albert Museum reveals opening date and programme for ambitious new east London storehouse
The museum has also announced details of the much anticipated David Bowie Centre, due to be housed on the same site
'Courageous and resilient individuals': why the Illinois Holocaust Museum is embracing virtual reality to share survivors’ stories
New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community
Will the Warhol Museum’s $80m plan pop?
Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum has big dreams for its Pop District project—but critics say the institution is putting all its soup cans in one basket
'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
London's National Gallery to ban liquids after attacks on paintings
The gallery will introduce new security measures, stating it has been "forced to act to protect our visitors, staff and collection"
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
Iceland plans national gallery overhaul
The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik
Indonesia's national museum reopens after devastating fire
Exhibition of 2,500 repatriated objects, including the "Lombok treasure", inaugurates the newly refurbished space
The unmissable museum shows during Art Basel Paris
From a canon-reshaping survey of Surrealism to an unearthing of the zombie myth
Restoration begins on rare Ludovico Mazzolino painting at the National Gallery of Ireland
The Italian Renaissance master’s few remaining large paintings are a conservation headache, but the museum hopes to show its Crossing of the Red Sea for the first time next year