Restoration will remove centuries of grime and stabilise the sculpture at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

Museum's little known, 6,000-strong Modern and contemporary art collection includes a ball gown made of 2,000 stamps

From studio spaces to museums, a future complex holds the promise of galvanising artists

Members of the climate activist group BP or not BP? blocked entry to the museum's show dressed as statues based on Greek mythology

Pierre Le Guennec and his wife Danièle hoarded 271 works for 40 years

Government says institute is necessary to address “considerable backlog in securing the visual memory of our society”

The €364m budget is “a real pain threshold,” culture minister says

Most cultural institutions open to the public again today

Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders

Opera sets will evoke the museum’s collection, and soloists will perform at the museum

Two directors left the museum last week, and 126 employees have received a dismissal notice

State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka

When it comes to having a historian rummaging in their stores, smaller institutions tend to be more enthusiastic and accommodating

The Rome-born curator will oversee the gallery’s tenth anniversary programme and events

The report made international headlines, recommending the restitution of African artefacts in French museums, but the country has not returned a single item to Africa

Museums officials say that the association with the oil company is at odds with a "responsibility to do all we can to address the climate emergency"

In this 1994 interview, he reveals how he likes art to be displayed, such as natural lighting for Impressionists

As his new book is released, the new secretary of the Smithsonian Institution talks of extending its reach beyond Washington

The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II

The British cultural historian will take up his role at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new branch in the spring

The French museum's president on censorship threats and settling the costs of the new project

Paris-based institutions Musée National Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti will open space in 798 district next June

Museum plans to send 300 portraits a year on tour around the country during £35.5m redevelopment

New outpost of the Beijing-based institution is due to open in 2021

Outspoken former minister also wants to stage the show in Valley of the Kings in 2022

The Los Angeles and Shanghai institutions say their joint foundation is still in progress

Sandra Jackson-Dumont will take over in January as leader of George Lucas’s $1bn project in Los Angeles

Culture chief Chris Dercon says the new space will hold events during the museum's three-year refurbishment, including a collaboration with Unesco

From next spring the foundation will hold exhibitions "in whatever part of the world I feel the dialogue is needed”, says founder Ziba Ardalan

Leonid Mikhelson says that the "frightening" cost that he had initially anticipated for the GES-2 complex has doubled