Papal blessing and private funder for Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sistine show

Completion is expected in 2014 or 2015

V&A will reunite Raphael’s Sistine tapestries with their cartoons for first time in 500 years

A deep look into the remarkable objects now on display in the museum's recently opened galleries

Crown that was returned in 1925 has disappeared

Medieval and Renaissance galleries crown phase one of museum’s “Future Plan”

How the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries have dealt with our ignorance of Christianity

V&A renaissance

Over 3000 objects from 2500CB to the present day on display

Next month the V&A in London presents 'Maharaja: the Splendour of India’s Royal Courts'

£3.3m required for export-delayed object

As the Middle East increasingly becomes a producer and consumer of contemporary art, the role of the West as 'tastemaker' grows progressively more troubling

Exhibition space will occupy area originally designed for abandoned Spiral project

Wax and wane: Gilbert dummy in V&A storage

The museum has spent £120m on FuturePlan projects

Treasures lost in the punitive sacking of Maqdala are subject to restitution claims

It was reassembled and sold after part of it was discovered in a pizzeria

The important Art Deco sculpture was purchased last year

New space named after the Porter family

ary Doyle pleaded guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court

Leading organisations to abolish reproduction charges for scholarly publications

Director Mark Jones believes works should be loaned out rather than kept in storage

New plans for developing the former 'Spiral' space

Paul Ruddock accepted the position after Sir John Tusa changed his mind

Medieval casket returned to UK owner; Czartoryski family to pursue case with support of Polish Ministry of Culture

Bollywood comes to London

Exhibition includes rare archival material

Will he be rescued from obscurity?

Investigations of domestic doings down the ages