The 50-year-old statement has been overhauled at the International Council of Museums conference in Prague today

At the ICOM conference in Prague, leaders will be told traditional planning could be a liability when addressing modern human rights issues

The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is pursuing a project of mass participation in an attempt to fully involve the city’s many communities in the future of the museum

Influential museum organisation calls for a new pay settlement, warning that workers face pay decreases "at the fastest rate for decades"

Private museum opens doors for first time since Russia invaded Ukraine

Whitworth Art Gallery chief stays in post until end of 2022 following exhibition controversy last year

The institution was awarded the £100,000 prize—the biggest in the global museum sector—for its attempt to confront its colonialist roots

France's historic photography festival gives top billing to the unseen, unrecognised and repressed, with a headline show dedicated to dissident feminist artists, many of whom worked behind the Iron Curtain

Ahead of his major retrospective at the Royal Academy this autumn, South African artist says Britain needs "imaginative solutions" for colonial era statues

Photographs by former British army officer Andy Barnham capture the lives of the translators whilst hiding their identity from Afghanistan's extremist rulers

Our top six picks from the design fair across the Messeplatz from Art Basel

Stands offered for free at Liste, while some gallery workers are living on the art fair circuit, unable to return home

The pair have created NFTs of a sculpture made in the Congo but owned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in response to a disagreement over its loan

Two years after the death of George Floyd, conversations about racism are morphing into lasting policy change

Sites are suffering widespread destruction, but a coalition of organisations is working to provide evidence of deliberate targeting by Russian forces

The British-Portuguese artist, a key figure in The London Group collective, gained a huge retrospective at Tate Britain last year and is a key presence in this year's Venice Biennale

After controversy on social media surrounding Newsha Tavakolian’s photographs of East Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières announces internal review

Current director of Gropius Bau will oversee opening of the long-awaited institution in the United Arab Emirates

Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques

Our pick of the five photography exhibitions to see in the city this weekend

Bold move by German photographer’s descendant to put archive on the blockchain sparks copyright row

Maxim Kantor's "The Rape of Europe" show in Luxembourg explores how contemporary art "participated in the preparation of cannon fodder"

Plus, Walter Sickert at Tate Britain and Gordon Parks at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

There's a lot to see in Venezia—save precious time and skip these

Writhing bodies in a deconsecrated church, BDE at the Ducale and an entirely improvised pavilion—what to see beyond the Arsenale and Giardini

Ramily founded Antananarivo’s only operational photography studio, chronicling Malagasy society from independence onwards. His images are about to go on show for the first time

From a Gauguin impersonation to fire raining from the sky, here are the best exhibitions in the city's former shipyards

From America's African facelift to the scents of hope and fear, here are the exhibitions we loved at the heart of the big event

Shipping chaos has derailed plans for the Central Asian nation's inaugural pavilion—but its organisers are improvising solutions

Plus, Winslow Homer at the Met and China's Russia problem