The renovation threatened the museum's architecture and collection, plaintiffs argued

Pierre Rosenberg has pledged his collection of works by Charles Le Brun and other artists to the new museum

The former nightclub 'doorman' is now on display at the Museum of Norwich.

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation

The leader has been both generous and controversial

Barnes Foundation’s sale of founder’s items follows nominal payment for lease of valuable land

A local group has sued Los Angeles County over the plan’s environmental impact report

Community lawsuit brings welcome last stand against museum’s alarmingly secretive project

Kunsthalle Rostock, the only museum built under the GDR, remembers Berlin's asbestos-riddled parliament building and culture hub

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

Nearly a decade after the Arab Spring scared off tourists, the Petra Museum is poised to welcome back visitors—and open up access for locals

Show at Minneapolis Institute of Art includes previously unknown triptychs by the Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully

Arab Image Foundation completes $255,000 digitisation initiative and will reopen its Beirut building this summer

The Hermitage will also expand its presence in Crimea with a new cultural centre planned in Sevastopol

The New York museum heads into the second half of 2019 with contemporary art takeovers and a balanced budget

The change has been a long-time wish for some leaders at the Los Angeles museum

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

High-level diplomacy is being used to secure the artist’s most important works for blockbuster anniversary show in Paris

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

The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family

Works by Frank Stella and Ursula von Rydingsvard take their place in lagoon landscape of New Orleans City Park

America's most famous work of art gets a dedicated $100m exhibition building

As pieces of its ancient Egyptian collection are salvaged, the museum’s director says it can no longer afford storage facilities

The massive work, shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale, re-interprets 19th-century wallpaper depicting native Pacific peoples

Planned Kiran Nadar Museum of Art will open up 6,000-strong collection to the public

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

In the third part of a new series, Adrian Ellis looks at the cost of state support in illiberal democracies and the insidious erosion of institutional independence

The Canadian institution aims to double its membership and expand its audience with one-year pilot programme

Museum seeks fourth director in as many years amid claims its renowned avant-garde collection is being “mistreated”

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Delacroix’s sketchbooks to a pair of Brexit vases