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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Studio Gang’s ambitious renovation revitalises a historic cultural institution

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

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

The Cameroonian-born curator is the institution's first Black leader

Climate protection guidelines have been issued to help sector become climate-fit

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

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

The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

The science-themed initiative will span museums and organisations big and small throughout Southern California

Butler made a similar cross-country move in 2006, when she left the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for a job at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Foreign Office was dismissive of the museum's attempts to lobby for the contested sculptures in 1983

A painting by Egon Schiele is among those bought back by the institutions from where they were confiscated

Some 30 objects in an auction this week are protected by Mexico’s cultural heritage laws, authorities there say