The closure affected a number of the institution’s buildings along the south side of the National Mall in Washington, DC

Upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, will feature 26 works from the Louvre, some of which have never been shown in the US

Currently the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Hillings worked on the Abu Dhabi project from 2009 to 2018

The restituted human remains include 17 skulls and one sample of hair, which were taken from the island during a German expedition in 1882

The work, created by the young friar-artist and updated later by Lorenzo di Credi, has undergone careful repair and cleaning

‘Free museums and galleries are a fundamental part of London life’, says the long-serving Labour mayor in a new op-ed

The seventh-century Anglo-Saxon burial ship is due to take to the water in May 2027, following a lengthy reconstruction process working from decayed remains

There have been protests and a petition since the archive of Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) was listed among the assets of the insolvent organisation

The strike across the east London museums will occur on 11 and 12 August as Prospect union pledges to step up industrial action across the heritage sector this summer

Although no longer involved with Inhotim, Paz appears to be reviving its model of art pavilions in a botanical landscape

The Unesco World Heritage site, located in northwest England, is home to the UK's largest telescope

The Asper family’s foundation last donated to the museum in 2023, and Gail Asper says she has indefinitely paused a personal gift of C$50,000 over a display about the violent displacement of Palestinians

The building’s epic art commissions play a big role, compelling visitors upwards

After fire destroyed half of the historic red-brick structure in 2024, its owners’ ambitious goal is to rebuild even faster than the French did with the Paris cathedral

Three new properties were inscribed under emergency procedures and simultaneously placed on the World Heritage in Danger List

The French Culture Ministry has budgeted €30m over three years to improve security at local museums and has issued a 33-point action plan

The latest museum in the Guggenheim network will open on 11 December 2026, twenty years after its original 2006 announcement

US president’s executive order comes after the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History was grilled by a congressional subcommittee

The discovery deep inside a sinkhole in Playa del Carmen has prompted a new research project to date and protect the remains

A 5.1-magnitude quake on 18 July caused the collapse of the roof and part of the facade of the colonial-era Iglesia Apóstol Santiago, one of the oldest churches in the Peruvian highlands

Chief curator Cathleen Chaffee and deputy director Jillian Jones will serve as artistic director and executive director, respectively

The decision comes after calls by Ukraine to protect the archaeological site, which is now managed by a Russian Orthodox cleric appointed by Vladimir Putin

After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa

Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027

The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July

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Trent Park House of Secrets tells the story of how mainly Jewish refugees covertly transcribed conversations from the building's basement

The museum in La Paz had been closed for a year; its new permanent collection exhibition includes a mummified girl repatriated from the US and an Andean sculpture that was stolen by a Swiss traveller in the 19th century

Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials