Museums
'Controversy at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi raises important questions over private museums in public life'
The firing of a curator for making critical statements against the museum's founder has prompted a long-overdue debate within the art world
New museum in Saudi Arabia bolsters collection after inking partnership deal with Centre Pompidou
The contemporary art institution is one of 15 “cultural assets” in development in the Arabian state’s AlUla heritage region
Suspects arrested in theft of gold coins from German museum
The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century
Hackers attack Nazi-linked collection exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich
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 Burrell Collection in Glasgow wins the Art Fund Museum of the Year award
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
Special report: Funding cuts and weak economy send UK’s visual arts into crisis
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
Recognising what’s special about museums: marking 10 years of the Art Fund Museum of the Year prize
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
The MAC: The Belfast museum that reaches out to Northern Ireland's disadvantaged communities
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
Scapa Flow Museum: the small museum that records Orkney's pivotal role in both world wars
The collection of naval artefacts in the Scottish archipelago reopened in 2022 after a multi-million pound refurbishment
The Burrell Collection: the recently reopened Glasgow museum is asking fresh questions of its objects and its audience
The country-park-based collection has returned with a new mission to create more diverse audiences and abandon preconceptions
Poet and translator to sue British Museum for copyright and moral rights infringement
Vancouver-based Yilin Wang has raised more than £15,000 via Crowd Justice to begin legal proceedings
National Gallery London masterpieces show in Shanghai sets record for visitor numbers
Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger
Musée Picasso president hits back at ahistorical critics as artist's troubling relationship with women comes into focus
Cécile Debray believes a truthful representation of Picasso’s life is “an important fight for everybody”
National Gallery summer party puts the fun in funding
Lavish event helps museum edge closer to £95m target for ambitious NG200 programme
New Istanbul culture hub seeks to make art more public
ArtIstanbul Feshane opens in an expansive 19th-century military factory to reach more of the city’s 16 million inhabitants
Diaries of the UK's first female professional astronomer acquired by Bath's Herschel Museum
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
For India's biggest private collector, David Adjaye designs his 'most advanced museum concept' yet
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
Elena Filipovic announced as the new director of the Kunstmuseum Basel
Filipovic joins from the Kunsthalle Basel and will replace Josef Helfenstein
Previously free, some UK museums are starting to charge as cost of living crisis bites
The principle of free admission to museums is being eroded, as entry fees are introduced to balance budgets
Germany has the most private contemporary art museums in the world, new report reveals
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
After Isis, Mosul Museum is rebuilt from the rubble
The terrorist group almost destroyed the museum in 2014. Less than a decade later, it is beginning to exhibit once again
Devastating dam collapse in Ukraine has apparently flooded house museum of late artist Polina Rayko
The self-taught painter's image of a dove has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance following Russia's 2022 invasion
186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s 100th birthday
Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Joy in Manchester’s cultural division as £211m arts centre opens
Factory International, the UK’s largest public investment in a cultural project since Tate Modern, opens in June alongside the Manchester International Festival
'Museums should be safe spaces to explore issues and not used as pawns in political agendas'
The simplification of complex issues is enabled by weak or fearful cultural institutions and and strident self-righteousness
National Portrait Gallery should become a dispersed museum
The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements
University of Brighton to close Brighton Contemporary Centre for the Arts citing ongoing fee freeze, ‘soaring energy costs’ and ‘generationally high inflation’
First exhibition in the south coast city for Turner Prize-winner and Brighton resident Helen Cammock has now been cancelled
Wartime museum on remote Scottish island one of five UK cultural centres shortlisted for world's biggest museum prize
Winner of the Art Fund's Museum of the Year prize will receive a £120,000 award at a ceremony on 17 July
An invisible €171m renovation: Dutch royal palace reopens after five-year-long underground project
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
Changing institutional culture from the inside out: why more and more US museum workers are forming unions
Employees across the sector are turning to unions to fight for better wages, benefits and working conditions