Culture minister Monika Grütters enlists international experts to help create a central institution but critics question necessity and feasibility

After a grant enabled conservation on a much-loved painting, researchers at the National Gallery of Ireland are learning more about the artist’s technique

Two-month conservation effort for the sculptures follows a public appeal to donors

Its 4-3 decision reverses an earlier vote to paint over a 1930s work that some parents and board members found racist and damaging to students

Internationally renowned photographers join forces to publish a crowdfunded book in English and Mandarin that raises awareness of China’s illegal trade in animals

A vast Art Deco mosaic celebrates the artistry of its often-overlooked creator

As the Getty winds down its decade-long Mosaikon project, it leaves behind a legacy of expertise in a region threatened by looting and political unrest

From languages to historic artefacts, the company will use technology to preserve and celebrate traditional cultures

State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation

US architect's distinctive designs are among 29 designees recognised for their “outstanding value to humanity”

The non-governmental organisation Europa Nostra recommends that the World Heritage Committee put the lagoon city on the endangered list

Hill House in Helensburgh has been covered to protect it from the rain while National Trust makes conservation plans

The World Heritage Committee is meeting in Baku and intends to dodge declaring Venice endangered for the third time

Repair work on Mose is estimated to take ten years, calling the operational date of 2021 into question

The Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, Syria’s Raqqa Museum and Mosul libraries all safeguarded

The preservation project could serve as a prototype for saving other earthen buildings

Nigerien pioneer Moustapha Alassane’s stop-motion work Samba the Great is being screened in Bologna

The Van Gogh Museum’s masterpiece has suffered from a 1960s restoration which involved the insertion of three long metal bolts

New partnership will preserve the Birzeit museum’s most ‘at-risk’ objects on paper

The Dorset farmhouse in which she lived with her father, the portrait painter George Spencer Watson, has been recently restored by the Landmark Trust

World Monuments Fund completes restoration of the eastern half of Phnom Bakheng temple

The popular public art work has been restored with the aim of keeping it Instagram-ready through 2021 or longer

Conservation experts carefully cleaned the fragile and flammable nitrate film so each frame could be individually scanned

The uncovered figure changes the composition of Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

A Modernist villa and hut in the south of France feature wall paintings by Le Corbusier

German city launches €85m plan to prevent further decay of infamous rally grounds

Exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice shows Tadao Ando’s designs for the Bourse de Commerce building

Initiative aims to boost Russian expertise in rapidly developing field of preserving contemporary art

Laboratory tests revealed "sensational" discovery that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death