The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century

Visitors who accessed text via QR codes saw collector Emil Georg Bührle described as “a Nazi sympathiser, authoritarian militarist, at the very least a war profiteer and probably a war criminal”

The museum won the prize for its six-year refurbishment and redisplay of one of Scotland's largest art collections, amassed by the late shipping magnate William Burrell

From regional galleries becoming “unsustainable” to brutal cuts to funding of museums, galleries and arts and humanities education, the sector is in an increasingly perilous state

The finalists for the 2023 Museum of the Year award, all of which focus on the importance of community engagement, will compete for a record £120,000 prize

Spurred by a rise in hate crime in the region, The MAC has been collaborating with five charities to open the museum to minority groups

The collection of naval artefacts in the Scottish archipelago reopened in 2022 after a multi-million pound refurbishment

The country-park-based collection has returned with a new mission to create more diverse audiences and abandon preconceptions

Vancouver-based Yilin Wang has raised more than £15,000 via Crowd Justice to begin legal proceedings

Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger

Cécile Debray believes a truthful representation of Picasso’s life is “an important fight for everybody”

Lavish event helps museum edge closer to £95m target for ambitious NG200 programme

ArtIstanbul Feshane opens in an expansive 19th-century military factory to reach more of the city’s 16 million inhabitants

The revealing handwritten memoirs of Caroline Herschel, the first woman to receive payment from King George III for her interstellar discoveries, has been acquired by the museum that was once her home

The architect's vision for the new Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi, opening 2026, honours India's multiple cultures and religions at a time of heightened nationalist politics

Filipovic joins from the Kunsthalle Basel and will replace Josef Helfenstein

The principle of free admission to museums is being eroded, as entry fees are introduced to balance budgets

According to the art collector data company Larry's List, the burgeoning private museums sector now comprises 446 institutions worldwide, 111 of which have opened since 2016

The terrorist group almost destroyed the museum in 2014. Less than a decade later, it is beginning to exhibit once again

The self-taught painter's image of a dove has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance following Russia's 2022 invasion

Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Factory International, the UK’s largest public investment in a cultural project since Tate Modern, opens in June alongside the Manchester International Festival

The simplification of complex issues is enabled by weak or fearful cultural institutions and and strident self-righteousness

The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements

First exhibition in the south coast city for Turner Prize-winner and Brighton resident Helen Cammock has now been cancelled

Winner of the Art Fund's Museum of the Year prize will receive a £120,000 award at a ceremony on 17 July

Designed as a royal hunting lodge in 1686, Het Loo has been transformed with a vast new entrance hall and multiple exhibition spaces hidden beneath the courtyard

Employees across the sector are turning to unions to fight for better wages, benefits and working conditions

The Cameroonian-born curator is the institution's first Black leader

Texas institution opens six new galleries to display its collection of Islamic art, coinciding with its hosting of symposium on the subject