The Labour peer Margaret Hodge has gone into more detail on proposals put forward in a report about the funding body Arts Council England

Mystery surrounds where the ‘Aya Kese’ was made and how it reached the West African kingdom of the Asante centuries ago

Built during the 2nd century, the circular building found in northern Sinai may have been dedicated to the god Pelusius

Despite a supreme court ruling, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya insists removal could damage the “Sistine Chapel of Romanesque art”

A joint letter, published by the Society for Iranian Archaeology, condemns the “irreversible damage” to cultural sites caused by US-Israeli missile strikes

The Stratford-based museum, opening this month, aims to build on the success of V&A East Storehouse, which has attracted 500,000 visitors since it opened in May last year

The forthcoming expansion will add gallery space, a patio and an outdoor event area

The upgrades, set to start in March 2027 and estimated to cost between $600m and $800m, will include a new tram from the parking structure to the museum’s hilltop campus

Archaeologists discovered the site during salvage operations for the new Mexico City-Querétaro passenger rail line

The staff departures have been organised to address the gallery’s projected £8.2m deficit

A Guggenheim Bilbao display of the monumental painting would have marked the 90th anniversary of the bombing that inspired it

After years of controversies, the organisation that oversees Louisiana’s ten state museums will have to wait until next year for the American Alliance of Museums’ ruling

The longtime director of the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC, will return to the Big Apple after 12 years away

The centre’s art-filled campus will open in June, but visitors to Expo Chicago can get a preview of its art commissions in two special curated sections of the fair

The new collections hub page speaks to an “institutional commitment to accountability and transparency”, the museum’s director Tristram Hunt said

The new research suggests use of dice in games of chance more than 6,000 years before such practices appeared in Europe

From Seoul-born artist Dabin Ahn’s first solo show with Document to dancehall and reggaetón at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Two former museum employees point to quiet changes related to programming and language that they think are decidedly telling

The Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, whose previous museum projects include V&A Dundee, will design the building located on the site of St Vincent House

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The fate of the 4,000 objects—including works by Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown, Martin Puryear and Edra Soto—remains unclear

The museum has acquired the beloved US illustrator’s ‘The Dugout’, his 1948 painting of Chicago Cubs players

A significant number of Canadians are shunning their neighbours to the south, a phenomenon felt most acutely by smaller museums and those along the border

After two years of conservation, the 19th-century Lucknow scroll is on show in New Haven, Connecticut

The manuscript pages, prints and calligraphy had been seized by Canadian authorities as they arrived in Vancouver from Istanbul

Two people finished their terms on the institution’s Board of Regents in early March and have yet to be replaced

The works of Chile’s most famous folk artist, singer and composer return to the Violeta Parra Museum, which now has enhanced security

The Center at West Park has been marshalling support from famous actors led by Mark Ruffalo to stop the demolition of West Park Presbyterian Church

Representatives for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust and the Tate had warned that the legislation could have severely impacted their funding

The cultural body has also unlocked more than $100,000 in emergency funding for urgent operations on the ground