The venture, made in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and several African art and culture scholars, will examine historical sites in sub-Saharan Africa

The museum will be built on the site of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, which focuses on contemporary art

The proposed museum replacing the current building has been called a “vanity project”

Exeter museum has held various objects belonging to the 19th-century Blackfoot leader Chief Crowfoot since 1878

A $118m project to expand the Museum of Chinese in America in New York kicks off amid protests centring on plans for a massive new “skyscraper” jail

Around 100 demonstrators rallied outside the institution during its gala, hoping to give greater urgency to ongoing negotiations with museum leaders

Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman

The museum claims the works' removal was due to a scheduling issue, but the curators involved in the selection described the images' omission as "disrespectful and unjust”

American Museum of Natural History renovates its Pacific Northwest cultures gallery after 112 years

The head of artist copyright society Dacs will replace Iwona Blazwick, who served as head of the East London institution for 20 years

Bët-bi, planned for 2025, will be designed by architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara

Current director of Gropius Bau will oversee opening of the long-awaited institution in the United Arab Emirates

British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum now under scrutiny of Cambodian government

Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques

After a seven-year refurbishment, the Paris museum is fully wheelchair-accessible and ready to welcome back visitors on a journey from the first to the 15th century

As stringent restrictions on art sales return after a pandemic reprieve, American institutions seem more polarised than ever

The ancient inscriptions were in a hidden tunnel complex found by looters before archaeologists carried out a rescue mission

Institutions in the running include Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham and Horniman Museum and Gardens in London

The latest National Trust for Historic Preservation list of endangered sites includes a cave of ancient pictographs in Missouri and the Hamptons home of painters James Brooks and Charlotte Park

Online articles by staff at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine show how items resonate with the war-torn country

Victoria and Albert Museum is last major UK institution to retain the donors' name on its building, despite settlement agreement allowing its removal

Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi

A controversial Israeli development plan will also install a cable car to the city's Western Wall, a Jewish holy site

The new policy, adopted by all Smithsonian museums on 29 April, will allow each institution to tailor it to their particular collections and provenance considerations

Few museums have spoken out since a leaked draft of a US Supreme Court decision indicated that the country's highest court will overturn the landmark abortion rights case

Show at Kode Museums in Bergen address questions around communal living, hoping to prove that living together can make us happier and healthier

The museum acquired “A Young Teacher” at a recent Sotheby’s auction, where it sold for more than ten times its high estimate

The Metropolitan Museum’s annual fashion extravaganza drew divergent interpretations of its Gilded Age theme

Faith leaders and community groups campaigned to save Glasgow's St Mungo Museum of Religious Art and Life from the risk of permanent closure

Queer Britain museum and Queercircle art space, both opening as the UK marks 50 years of Gay Pride marches, will offer free-entry exhibitions and public workshops