The art foundation, which has closed its doors, was never more than the shell of a museum

Dream museum of collectors Basil and Elise Goulandris brought to life almost three decades after original proposal

Investigators find paintings and rare books missing from private museum belonging to banker Alexei Ananyev accused of alleged financial crimes

Wizard of Oz vision inspires new $15m contemporary art centre in San Antonio designed by David Adjaye

The refurbishment of the Bourse de Commerce space, designed by Tadao Ando, costs $170m

Burgeoning private museums offer cause for hope among economic uncertainty and geopolitical turbulence

Kistefos's dramatic new exhibition gallery also functions as a panoramic bridge

Private museum is due to open a new venue in capital's historic Longfusi area

Hasso Plattner also plans to put his Impressionist works on permanent display in his Barberini Museum

The reborn oil tanks host shows by teamLab, Adrián Villar Rojas and assorted Chinese artists

Hauser & Wirth has helped to develop “sustainable model” for Chillida Leku, which partially closed amidst Spanish economic crisis

GES-2 will be part of Moscow's Museum Mile, linked to Garage, the Tretyakov and the Pushkin

Museum board says fundraising campaign to build delayed private museum is not dependent on the scandal-hit auto executive

The electronics magnate owns ten works by Gerhard Richter, seven Picassos and two works by Francis Bacon

Muzeum Susch aims to bring a “disruptive outlook” to the historic Engadin valley pilgrimage site

Difficulties began when the museum asked HW Architecture to work pro bono

More than a year after opening, the Cape Town museum’s curatorial and educational record has yet to live up to its promise

The Nabu Museum collection combines antiquities with Modern and contemporary art

Bucharest’s new Muzeul de Arta Recenta emphasises artists who worked outside the structures of the Communist regime

New private museum in Vilnius flies the flag for contemporary Lithuanian artists

Collaboration in Almaty is expected to be long-term, but no money is changing hands

Collectors’ private museum, scrutinised by US Senate for limited access, could draw 100,000 people a year

Maja Hoffmann is spearheading a vast multidisciplinary arts complex spread over 15 acres of an industrial site

Show at Lebanon's Aishti Foundation is last in a trilogy exploring its vast private collection before its first solo presentation of Albert Oehlen

Long-awaited showcase spaces for collection founded by Mitchell and Emily Rales to open in October

Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova will continue to fund their contemporary art museum

Boris Mints’s institution says that exhibitions are continuing to run

New home for the Paris-based corporate collection, established by billionaire financier, is inaugurated after years of delays

Works from the entrepreneur’s extensive holdings will go on show in Muzeum Susch, which will host temporary exhibitions and a residency programme