Turbulent year draws to a close with sector wracked by pandemic lockdowns and Black Lives Matter challenges

Event marking anniversaries of the Emirati museum and New York University Abu Dhabi looked at museum collections, buildings and people, and the impact of coronavirus

After months without income due to coronavirus closures, new survey shows that museums are operating with just 25% of previous visitor numbers

Senate approves bill to return 27 colonial-era artefacts from museum collections to Africa within one year

French organisation Culturespaces plans fifth and sixth locations for shows of digitised paintings

Committee will advise on cultural initiatives in the country and research Ghanaian objects held in international collections

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Gairloch Museum, the Science Museum, South London Gallery and Towner Eastbourne will share £200,000 award

First funding round hailed as a "lifeline" for heritage sites and specialists reeling from the pandemic, but job losses continue

New research finds teenage artist's landscapes were based on a magazine for amateurs learning how to paint

Institution previously associated with a 17th-century Dutch naval officer will become Kunstinstituut Melly in January

Clore Duffield Foundation funds are designed to relaunch learning and community programming

Pandemic scuppers city’s celebrations of Mayflower anniversary and hopes for tourist crowds—but flagship museum project opens against the odds

Family's private apartment, displays about psychoanalysis and collection of conceptual art go on view

Immersive installations by the Japan-based collective will be the centrepiece of Nowhere, a new digital art space in Utrecht

A coalition of international museums and heritage organisations are working to provide expertise to Lebanese institutions

NSW government scraps controversial billion-dollar relocation plan but faces questions from community groups and parliament

Plus, curator Emily Butler on Rhea Storr's video art. Produced in association with Christie's

While the museums’ staff have avoided layoffs, their colleagues in retail and catering have not been as lucky

Lawyer says Egypt breached heritage protection laws by contracting a private company to tour the artefacts

Cultural institutions from Amsterdam to Utrecht will work together to advance diversity and inclusion in programming, audiences and staff

Tudor specialist has been widely condemned for remarks on slavery and Black Lives Matter in YouTube interview

Charity's Covid-19 crisis support package includes £150,000 to launch new network of touring exhibitions

Monuments of the king were targeted by anti-racism protestors last weekend

Nxt Museum to open in Amsterdam on 29 August with immersive installations by pioneering artists, designers, technologists and scientists

As governments loosen lockdown restrictions, institutions map out ways of seeking to limit the spread of coronavirus

Suay Aksoy, president of Icom, says museums closed by Covid-19 lockdowns "need to champion themselves because their survival may depend on it"

Acquisition from the artist's estate heralds a wave of works being dispersed across UK public collections

Delicate negotiations with lenders are under way to postpone major European shows of Raphael, Artemisia Gentileschi and Christo

Closed museums are losing millions in income, ushering in job cuts, appeals for emergency relief and lasting changes in strategy

One of the museum’s finest period rooms, the Kaufmann Office is being restored for display in new V&A East collection centre