Openings

Restored Notre-Dame to have its own museum in Paris's Hôtel-Dieu

Institution in historic hospital development could exhibit the heads of the kings of Judea from the cathedral's medieval statues

After 50 years, Milan’s new Modern art museum opens

Palazzo Citterio, part of the new Grande Brera cultural complex, is due to be inaugurated on 7 December

Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum partially opens—but Tutankhamun Gallery remains closed

Some of the galleries in the museum near the Giza pyramids are now open to the public

New arts district takes shape in Dallas’s northern suburbs

Three institutions have joined forces to transform a corner of the University of Texas at Dallas into a cultural hub

Musée Rodin to open outpost in Shanghai

The new venue will be run and funded by the private collector Wu Jing, whose Rodin works, ordered from Paris, will be on show

British Museum’s historic Reading Room opens to the public after 11 years

The space, once used by the likes of Karl Marx, is finally available for all visitors to the London institution to see

Gagosian will stage the gallery’s first exhibition in Seoul

'Derrick Adams: The Strip' will open just in time for the Frieze Seoul art fair

Collector Reinhard Ernst’s abstract art gets a new home in Germany

The Museum Reinhard Ernst, opening this week in the city of Wiesbaden, houses works by Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Damien Hirst and Neo Rauch

Sprawling new cultural hub takes shape in Detroit

Little Village arts campus, including church transformed into an exhibition space and a skatepark, aims to bolster Detroit’s cultural scene

Almost untouched for a century, Swiss painter Albert Anker’s rural home opens to visitors

The Centre Albert Anker in Ins, Switzerland, is set to open to visitors on 7 June with an exhibition on the artist's travels to Italy

Anger as Vienna's new Actionism museum shows child abuser's art

The inclusion of Otto Muehl, who was convicted of sexual abuses against minors, has triggered protests at the Vienna Actionism Museum, which opened in March

Gallery devoted to customs officer-turned-artist George Wyllie opens in Scotland

The Wyllieum is part of a new cruise ship visitor centre in Greenock

Nicolas Berggruen opens contemporary art space in Venice palazzo

It is the largest contemporary art venue to open in the city since the launch of François Pinault’s Punta della Dogana 15 years ago

Despite the no vote, Australia reinforces First Nations voices

While a referendum to recognise Indigenous people failed, the country’s cultural institutions are striving to reflect their lives

Former Victoria Miro senior director goes it alone with experimental London project

Matt Carey-Williams is looking to shake up the traditional gallery model by bringing “all the protagonists around the table in a slightly different way”

Jack Shainman goes big to start next chapter

Major expansion in historic Tribeca building inaugurates 40th year of gallerist’s career

The big museum openings and expansions of 2024

The Grand Egyptian Museum should open at last, while Masp in São Paulo gets a tower-block extension

'We want to excite people': Rugby star Maro Itoje and London dealer Khalil Akar on their new African art gallery

The gallerists aim to break down the white cube model and make the art world more accessible through their new roving venture

Austria confronts its Nazi past in refurbished Wien Museum

Following the British model, entry will be free for the newly expanded institution

Turkey opens new archaeology institute in quake-hit city

Researchers are hopeful the state-of-the-art Turkish Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Institute will enhance international collaboration in the field

Uzbekistan launches ambitious new cultural agenda

The former Soviet state, set to open the largest exhibition space in Central Asia, is also strengthening its international presence

New £38.6m galleries at National Galleries Scotland to spotlight nation's art

The new spaces will bring together treasures by some of Scotland's best-loved artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries

New museum in Saudi Arabia bolsters collection after inking partnership deal with Centre Pompidou

The contemporary art institution is one of 15 “cultural assets” in development in the Arabian state’s AlUla heritage region

New Istanbul culture hub seeks to make art more public

ArtIstanbul Feshane opens in an expansive 19th-century military factory to reach more of the city’s 16 million inhabitants

Spain’s most ambitious museum project in decades unites royal collection in Madrid

Some are concerned that the new Royal Collections Gallery will be a blow to cultural tourism in the regions where a number of the works previously resided

A director's tour of the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery in London

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

Stormzy, Doreen Lawrence and Lucy Bronze: National Portrait Gallery reopens with a focus on the new faces of Britain

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

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum reveals its $230m transformation

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

Inside Malba: a tour of the largest museum dedicated to Latin American art in the world

On the edges of Buenos Aires, the Museum of Latin American Art has launched a second exhibition space. John Kampfner pays a visit.