The move follows on-going calls for the resignation of the museum board's vice chairman

Former Roerich Museum director Tigran Mkrtychev wins international competition to head up the famed Russian avant-garde collection long embroiled in controversy

France’s president pledged to return 26 items seized in the 19th century by the French military

Alfredo Jaar's new immersive installation inside a tunnel at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania simulates heaven, hell and purgatory

An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War

The world’s greatest unsolved art theft continues to obsess—and stump—investigators

Prominent Egyptian-born writer cites the institution's BP sponsorship, treatment of workers and its silence over restitution as key issues

A new report by Icomos details how the science/culture divide is stopping world heritage coming to the aid of climate change and urges speedy action

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

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

Museum’s director Tristram Hunt says securing loans and sponsorship is “more of a challenge” as tension grows between Trump and Tehran

“Where have the ethics and sense of a global mandate to protect the world’s heritage gone?”, asks Francesco Bandarin

Christian institutions are calling attention to their marginalisation in wake of Israel’s focus on Jewish-centric policies

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide—from Lee Krasner's record-setting painting to a Hogarth conversation piece

Vast collections centre for 300,000 objects inaugurated as construction continues on ambitious museums quarter for Hungarian capital

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

One-room space in Washington, DC, focuses on art and culture rather than “catastrophe”— but a section is dedicated to the 1948 mass exodus

The oil company will support one exhibition at the museum next year, but not a show dedicated to the people of the Arctic

Brazil funds major renovation of landscape architect's lush estate, which could become a World Heritage site in 2020

Three huge silk and wool works depicting England’s Midland counties have been painstakingly preserved by the Bodleian Library and the National Trust

Moored besides the Pont des Invalides in Paris, Fluctuart will open with an exhibition by the Brooklyn-based artist Swoon

The Cardiff museum is the first Welsh winner of the £100,000 prize, beating other finalists including V&A Dundee and Pitt Rivers Museum

"Experiences like this are literally taking away from academic growth", says principal of students who filed a complaint during a class trip

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

Turkish non-profit contemporary art space Arter is relocating to a state-of-the-art exhibition space in Dolapdere district

The Dutch still-life heads back to the Florence museum after bold campaign by director