Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses

While the Kann descendants have solid evidence for their claim, the Wildenstein family are confident enough in their story to share their own documents with The Art Newspaper

Leading expert on Nigerian antiquities warns that government and museum officials in the country are involved with the illicit trade of artefacts to the West

13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen

A doctor in a remote village in the Congo, part of Dr Rau's thousand-strong collection is on display now in Paris.

Extensive damage to basement in Easter Sunday flood

"Mars and Venus" will pay for essential repairs

Change of attitude towards restitution requests may signal changes in UK law

The incredible longevity of the monastery - or mosque, for a period - can be attributed to its willingness to change with the times

The government wants to set precise goals for the number of ethnic minority visitors to museums and make funding dependent on achieving them

Christopher Ondaatje has only recently come to public notice with his donation of £2,750,000 to London’s National Portrait Gallery.

With over 200 objects on loan from the British Museum an exhibition which charts Agatha Christie’s travels in the Orient.

Van Dyke painting withdrawn from sale at Christie's.

The Art Newspaper has uncovered a forgotten episode in which the young Serota clashed with the trustees of the Tate over the Young Friends’ exhibitions

British provenance probes

The director of the Rijksmuseum is turning the famous museum into an artistic journey through Dutch history, and combining fine and decorative arts

Restitution guidelines in the UK are changing with the times, but the marbles remain with the British Museum for now

Stephen Deuchar, director of the Tate Britain, talks about the new thematic displays and future major survey shows of New British art, Blake and Spencer

The first stage of splitting the Tate Gallery into a museum of British art and a museum of international modern art takes place this month

The restitution question was hardly mentioned, but it tautened everyone’s nerves

An effort to increase the public's exposure to the National Collection

Van Gogh fakes controversy continues

Millions of dollars from reproduction rights, hundreds of thousands of fakes and the authority to authenticate works are at stake. The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, set up to care for his work, claims that Demart, which administers his intellectual property rights, is failing to do its job

The Joule archive drawings continue to cause contention

The museum’s low-profile fundraising has achieved the biggest capital sum ever for a UK museum, but who is to pay for the running costs?

Twenty US works are to be shown at Millbank for its inauguration in March 2001

A Californian company prepares to sell etchings reprinted from the seventeenth-century plates

Their director of marketing talks on the database against crime