Medieval expert will head the department of art and design at the National Museum of Scotland

Museums must widen the ways in which they serve their audiences to reflect new forms of social interaction

The first museum dedicated to Lithuanian Modern and contemporary art will open in the country’s capital

Founder of the Pinacothèque hopes to restructure the institution

Louvre director’s plan calls for co-ordinated response to destruction in Syria and Iraq

From the 1860s, a network of museums were founded nationwide

A look at the top institutions due to launch worldwide in the coming year

Who benefits most from tax breaks on private art museums: patrons or the public?

Major gifts and purchases from around the world that stood above the rest

Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa

Director Gregor Muir hopes to revamp spaces

The hedge-fund manager has also funded the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Whitney Museum

The artist's foundation is funding a three-year project to bring the museum's drawings to students outside London

Management is in discussions with the UK-educated academic about her role in the 2016 Singapore Biennale <p> </p>

Prestigious institutions have sprung up around the world, from the Prada Foundation in Milan to the Broad in Los Angeles

Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

No cuts for national museums but regionals face ripple effect of reduced funding for local authorities

The Italian culture ministry plans to bring a contemporary art museum to L’Aquila

Visitors to the Louvre down by 35% and Pompidou's attendance reduced by half in the weeks after the atrocities