The Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou will shut its exhibition space on 9 October

The museum’s longstanding struggles to balance its books were exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic

Economic instability and rising energy prices threaten many institutions, while emergency funding made available during the pandemic is no longer accessible

Gladstone Pottery Museum to be used as a film location under controversial council proposals

The Metropolitan Museum will stay opened at reduced capacity, while others like the Yale University Art Gallery and the Baltimore Museum of Art close temporarily

Despite challenges wrought by the pandemic and earthquake-caused damage to its building, the museum has a new director and new momentum

Natural History Museum closes due to front-of-house staff shortages caused by Covid-19

Long Museum West Bund and Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum both announced they would shut indefinitely for unspecified reasons

Venue's board announced closure "with profound sadness" in March after losing sole tenancy of the theatre and gallery space

Poll conducted in April yields optimism that financial fallout from the pandemic will be less severe than feared

Staff will shrink from 126 to 106 as institution pursues an organisational makeover

While Paris museum undergoes renovations, Europe's biggest modern and contemporary art collection will go on tour—keeping curators employed

With lockdown lifted for nail salons and zoos, anger rises over arts institutions’ continued closure, estimated to cost the sector $22m a day

Luigi Brugnaro's "entrepreneurial" decision violates Venice's historic agreement with Italian state to keep the landmark open to the public

Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure as part of cost-cutting measures by local council

Cultural workers voice frustration at mixed closure orders, as theatres, concert halls and restaurants are allowed to stay open

More than 40 directors sign an open letter to regional governments saying museums should not be included in month-long coronavirus lockdown

The New York-based art dealer will instead launch a project initiative in the city, with no permanent space, starting next autumn

Art world pays tribute to vital public space that served community organisations as well as artists including Lucian Freud, Billy Childish and Shezad Dawood

NTU Centre for Contemporary Art to close physical venue in March, casting doubt on future of gallery district

The French-Algerian is now looking for a new, smaller space in the city's suburbs

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

Updates on which cultural institutions are temporarily closing to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic

Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure “visitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other”

Abrupt closure of three spaces has prompted criticism from some about the way the business was run

Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, responds to criticism about the museum's three-year closure

The London museum will close between 2020 and 2023, but the announcement was buried in the fourth paragraph of a press release

Privately funded Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art says its forced closure follows “a long period of disputation” with the local authorities

From next spring the foundation will hold exhibitions "in whatever part of the world I feel the dialogue is needed”, says founder Ziba Ardalan

A sign of the times, two of London and Paris’s oldest firms closed their premises in the traditional art heartlands of the cities