Initiative involves local communities in rebuilding their historic landmarks and neighbourhoods

Closed by coronavirus, Huntington Library posts online video reflecting on 18-month conservation treatment of dazzling portrait

Taylor’s in Loughborough faces uphill struggle in fundraising drive to restore decaying buildings and create new museum

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's £30,000 appeal aims to restore ambitious sculpture of the Bard in grounds of his former home

The price of gold has also spiked amid scarcity of the precious metal due to the closure of the World Heritage listed market

Almost two years after fire ravaged the Mackintosh building, debate intensifies over future plans for the site

German cathedral glass workshops have the expertise and experience necessary to undertake the restoration

Plans to remove the scaffolding around the fire-damaged cathedral have been put on hold

Precision illumination can draw out a work’s fine details without physical intervention, but some doubt it will ever replace traditional conservation

The story of a collection of 18th-century houses in the East End that have been carefully saved after years of neglect

Spectral CT scans enabled the Dallas Museum of Art to identify unknown elements in the West African piece

Yemeni authorities and World Monuments Fund team up to repair ruined National Museum in Taiz

Second stage of open-access restoration of Van Eyck brothers’ masterpiece strips away 16th-century overpainting to reveal an abundance of fine details

Conservators discover that the 1566 painting was once bluer and revisit the exposure of the notorious codpieces

The 17th-century work features in a newly opened exhibition on art and food at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

Building was considered an audacious architectural experiment when it was built in 1797

Millionaire Jonathan Ruffer’s ambitious regeneration of a small former mining town in northern England reveals 1,000 years of history and art

Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago

Contrast of city's devastated buildings and monuments and some of their remarkable restorations is heartening

Foundation secures funds from Bernard Arnault and François Pinault towards the reconstruction of the cathedral

Splendid royal state apartments of Augustus the Strong are opening to visitors again after a lavish reconstruction

Archaeologists have uncovered more than one million objects on the site

The colossal mural, recently recreated, has returned to its home near Grand Central Station

Ancient Palmyra’s painted lady is digitally reconstructed from traces of pigments for new exhibition at Copenhagen’s Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Researchers at the Landesmuseum in Halle found fragments of paint on the ancient wooden object

Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021

Open letter describes the Garrison Church, damaged in the Second World War, as the symbol of an “unholy alliance” between church, military, and state

Construction had been expected to start a week earlier, but new safety measures for the protection of workers are still being tested

Famous Ancient Egyptian artefact transferred from Luxor tomb to Cairo for delicate conservation work ahead of museum opening

The 16th-century Virgin and Child with Saints is now back on show