As the Hispanic Society Museum & Library reopens after a six-year renovation—and two-month strike—its leaders are re-imagining its founder's legacy

Filipovic joins from the Kunsthalle Basel and will replace Josef Helfenstein

Nicholas Cullinan shows us around the new-look museum after its three-year closure

Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was demolished last year, but 23 of its distinctive pods were preserved

"Customers Conversing in a Tavern" (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade is up on display after a six years of research and negotiations

The new facility will bring science-based material exploration, art activities and countless forms of play to the museum's youngest patrons

Missed the blockbuster show at the Rijksmuseum? Fear not, we present an insider’s guide to seeing all his 36 paintings across the globe, from London and New York, to Braunschweig and Tokyo

According to the art collector data company Larry's List, the burgeoning private museums sector now comprises 446 institutions worldwide, 111 of which have opened since 2016

More than 500 workers at the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh voted to ratify their first contract after 18 months of negotiations

A similar institution in Hong Kong was forcibly shuttered in 2021 following the passage of the city’s restrictive security law

View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes will in future be displayed with information about its former owner, Jakob Goldschmidt

Activists urged the New York museum to distance itself from board chair Marie-Josée Kravis and her husband Henry Kravis due to their ties to the fossil fuel industry

The institution will return funds donated by the defunct exchange and hedge fund led by Sam Bankman-Fried prior to its untimely collapse

The large piece of oak is around 6,000 years old–2,000 years older than Stonehenge

Every museum visit produces $905 in social benefits per visitor, according to a study conducted at 11 art institutions

The art historian Manuel Segade will join the Madrid institution while Tate international art curator Sook-Kyung Lee takes the reins in Manchester

The recovered items also include a Corinthian bronze helmet and four Roman-Byzantine gold coins

President Putin ordered the transfer of the medieval masterpiece from the State Tretyakov Gallery to the Russian Orthodox Church despite protests from restorers

The new education annex of the National Air and Space Museum will be funded through a $200m gift from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

The artistic institution Dar Jacir was established by the Bethlehem-born artist Emily Jacir to give creatives from Palestine an outlet

The recently-closed exhibition drew 650,000 visitors in its four month run

The museum has been under pressure for more than a decade to break off its affiliation with the oil and gas corporation

Plus, the damage to heritage in Italy following the devastating floods and Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum work

The lands withdrawn from future oil, gas and mining claims around Chaco Culture National Historical Park include more than 4,700 known archaeological sites

Cameroon has set up a restitutions committee to work with the museums

Heirs claim they were loaned and want them back; the museum says decision not yet made

The annual gathering organised by the American Law Institute and co-sponsored by the Smithsonian took place recently in Philadelphia

After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population

More than three years after it closed, the museum in upstate New York has made major upgrades across its campus and added more than 500 works to its collection

Many of the gifted works will go to European institutions, while others are bound for Boston, Dallas and Melbourne