St. Petersburg museum also announces “a one-year moratorium on exhibitions in Europe and the US”

What would have been the most expensive museum project in Canadian history is paused indefinitely due to opposition over its cost

The institution will announce the selected Washington, DC sites for the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum by the end of the year

The museum will be housed in a 50,000 sq. ft timber structure on Fort Worth's Southside designed by Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group

The massive sculpture, five years in the making, depicts a tragic circus elephant recreated out of trashed leather furniture

The ethics of the South Kensington museum are in question after hosting Conservative Party fundraiser

Having survived Islamic State, Assyrian capital is under threat once again

The $13m project entailed a comprehensive exterior restoration and landscape redesign

Strutt’s North Mill Museum in Derbyshire is set to close following the withdrawal of local authority funding

Archaeologists found swords, jewellery and ear wax removers at the site

Negotiations between the union and museum leadership have been ongoing since October 2020

The Iranian-born artist Abbas Akhavan’s installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver re-stages a scene captured at the Iraq Museum in 2003

The sculpture will be installed prominently outdoors at the Southern California museum's new $93m Morphosis-designed building

The Timken Museum of Art, the only museum with a Rembrandt on public display in San Diego, underwent a major two-year renovation

The Heidi Horten Collection in Vienna includes works by Andy Warhol, Lucio Fontana and Damien Hirst

Museums must match the price of the work titled Confirmation, which has been put on the market by the Duke of Rutland

Deal with Cinello company fuels debate about ownership of Old Master masterpieces in the metaverse age

A bicentenary renovation project makes the London museum play a tricky game of musical chairs with its collection

The heiress and NFT evangelist is supporting a new acquisition fund at the museum, which has a history of supporting artists working with cutting-edge technology

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

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Plus, Norway’s mega-museum and a Spanish-American screen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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

Futter, who became the first woman to lead a major New York museum when she took the role in 1993, oversaw a period of enormous growth at the institution

Ramírez-Montagut was most recently the director of Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum

The $50m centre is scheduled to open in 2025 and showcase works on long-term loan from the National Museum of the American Indian

In Philadelphia, Sasha Suda will succeed Timothy Rub, whose 13-year tenure included both major achievements and significant turmoil

A recent investigation revealed that rather than divest his chemical weapons divisions, as he claimed he would, Kanders has reconfigured his holdings

The province’s enormous expenditure to rebuild the Royal British Columbia Museum should include funding repatriation efforts, the Tseshaht First Nation says

Paz had been accused of transferring nearly $100m made as donations to the sprawling art centre to his mining and steel companies