Museums & Heritage

National Archaeological Museum of Naples opening new branch in the city’s famous Real Albergo dei Poveri

MANN's new partner museum will provide an additional 10,000sqm of exhibition space, allowing the people of Naples to finally see the full range of the largest collection of classical archaeology in the world

Russian authorities confirm that famous 'Trinity' icon will be transferred to church despite protests from restorers and art historians

The announcement that President Putin will return Andrei Rublev’s masterpiece has sparked criticism from experts due to its fragile condition

Italy announces museum ticket price hike as part of €2bn flood aid package

Admission will be raised by €1 to support relief efforts in the affected Emilia-Romagna region

Museums in four states win top US prize

The Institute of Museum and Library Services bestowed its top honours for 2023 on museums in Florida, Ohio, Wyoming and California

Rijksmuseum unveils Richard Long exhibition thanks to biggest-ever donation

Dutch museum has received €12.5m gift to help support free-of-charge, sculptural exhibitions in the gardens

Strike at New York's Hispanic Society ends after nearly two months

Workers at the museum ratified their first contract after many months of negotiations with leadership

Curators in the climate crisis: who are the new museum hires turning art institutions green?

From the Serpentine Galleries to the Sainsbury Centre, in the UK and beyond, institutions have hired designated directors to head up matters environmental

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San Diego-based collectors hand over pre-Hispanic artefacts to Mexican authorities

The 65 heritage objects in question include a glass with a clay pedestal dating from the Mesoamerican Classic period and a ceramic bowl dating from 200CE

American Museum of Natural History’s soaring, $465m new science centre opens

The new Gilder Center, designed by architecture firm Studio Gang to resemble a towering canyon, adds 230,000 sq. ft and some clarity to the museum’s vast Manhattan campus

Wartime museum on remote Scottish island one of five UK cultural centres shortlisted for world's biggest museum prize

Winner of the Art Fund's Museum of the Year prize will receive a £120,000 award at a ceremony on 17 July

An invisible €171m renovation: Dutch royal palace reopens after five-year-long underground project

Designed as a royal hunting lodge in 1686, Het Loo has been transformed with a vast new entrance hall and multiple exhibition spaces hidden beneath the courtyard

Saudi Arabia announces two new major museums as part of AlUla heritage site

An institution for contemporary art and another dedicated to the incense trade route are the first "cultural assets” launched as part of the region's 15-year plan

Hunt under way in Sheffield after precious artefacts stolen from city centre museum in daybreak heist

Police concerned ornate blades taken from Kelham Island Museum could be sold on the black market in the latest of a series of attacks on institutions in the UK city

Museums close and turn into shelters amid deadly floods in northern Italy

At least 13 people have died and thousands have been evacuated as the Emilia-Romagna region battles its worst floods in 100 years

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Changing institutional culture from the inside out: why more and more US museum workers are forming unions

Employees across the sector are turning to unions to fight for better wages, benefits and working conditions

Putin now orders return of Russia's most precious icon to the church

Following the restitution of the silver Nevsky sarcophagus last week, the handover of Andrei Rublev's 15th-century Trinity has sparked concerns among conservators

British Museum drops reference to the Rosetta Stone from title of major refurbishment plans

Move may reflect sensitivities around the museum's possession of the ancient Egyptian object

After sudden closure, Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts reopens

The art and film space had seemingly closed permanently in April, but community donations will allow its cinema to resume operations

Berlin museums to look into origins of archaeological collections

Research could lead to restitutions if artefact were found to have been excavated or exported illegally

Hermitage returns monumental silver sarcophagus of Saint Alexander Nevsky to the Russian Orthodox Church

The move is described as "a striking event of world significance" by the director of the St Petersburg museum

The transformed Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts reopens in Little Rock

Studio Gang’s ambitious renovation revitalises a historic cultural institution

Indian government challenges British newspaper report that it is making 'largest repatriation claim' against UK

Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading"

'Restitution with conditions is neo-colonialism': German ruling parties defend return of Benin bronzes in parliament

The far-right Alternative for Germany party called for the debate after the oba of Benin was named owner of the returning artefacts, causing confusion

An overdue retrospective for an artist in touch with America’s dark ‘underbelly’

Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has been transforming the contemporary art canon for decades with multilayered works that address cultural misconceptions with humour

Paris's Centre Pompidou to shut for five years as part of major renovation project

The institution will be closed for its own 50th anniversary—but will work with the city's museums, including the Louvre, to stage projects during the period

Philippe Regnier. With additional reporting by Gareth Harris