Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

From the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery in London to the major expansion of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in the US, here is our pick of new museum projects in the coming year

From Mondrian to Rothko, when it comes to hanging a painting, museums don't always get things right first (or even second) time

Museum in London acquired refurbished ticket kiosk site for £3m with funds from businessman Len Blavatnik

‘Louvre Looks’ videos will be posted weekly on Instagram

Rare work by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, valued at £277,990, will go on show at Ulster Museum

New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany

More than a decade after a previous attempt fizzled out, a new institution is on the prowl for prime real estate in Ottawa

Collaboration between Samdani Art Foundation in Dhaka and Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art brings the institutions—and the powerful collectors behind them—closer together

Professor Ken Arnold, co-curator of the Medicine Man display that was considered "racist, sexist and ableist", on the recent controversy

The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum is the latest Western institution to return its collection of artefacts looted from Nigeria in the late-19th century

Announcement was made during the trial of six men which began in January and is due to resume this week

The refurbishment is backed by a raft of sponsors including British-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik and international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills

The artist’s commission will bring a ‘new perspective’ to the painting, which has been off view since 2020

Extensive new research across 31 US museums reveals that works by female artists make up just 11% of acquisitions, while Black American artists of all genders account for only 6.3% of exhibitions

Chile-based practise Elemental is tasked with turning the former grain plant into an institution fit for Doha’s desert environment

Works on self-identity will be shown at the revamped London gallery next year

Victorian hospital will re-create the original skylight that aided innovative treatment of “working and deserving” women

Data from the Burns Halperin Report 2022, published 13 December, shows the limited purchasing power of museums and how much they rely on donors to shape their collections

Institution will reopen in 2026, with Fabric its first "nightclub in residence"

A lawsuit claims that the billionaire sexually assaulted a woman in Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion

Prize worth £110,000 enables Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to host first UK museum show dedicated to Tanzanian-born artist Everlyn Nicodemus

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, known as the KMSKA, is facing a barrage of criticism following its grand reopening in September

For many museums, the offer of works of art can be more of a headache than a blessing, so potential donors are finding they must do some groundwork to ensure their gift will be accepted—and appreciated

The designers behind the New Museum in New York and the Louvre-Lens talk about their latest project in Sydney

As the Sydney museum reopens, we look at its long history of supporting artists, and when it began to collect Indigenous art

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has been expanded with a new building by Japanese architects SANAA, while new displays will push Australia's Indigenous artists to the fore

A once-hidden relic of the Second World War by Sydney's harbour has been turned into an underground exhibition space

The Sydney-based museum has almost 36,000 pieces from across time and from around the world

First floor of London museum to be renamed the "Blavatnik Wing" and will display 100 years of portraiture across nine galleries