Alex Kachkine, a PhD student at MIT, art-lover and self-taught restorer, wanted to provide conservators with another “tool in the toolbox”

A ten-year conservation project has shed light on how the artist attempted to work with a system involving a grid of nails placed on the walls

The work, which unexpectedly appeared at auction in 2024, has been restored and added to an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel

The Hendrick I. Lott House in southeast Brooklyn—former home to a family of enslavers who later made it a stop on the Underground Railroad—will undergo a major preservation and renovation project next year

The Tapestry Drawing Room at the stately home, which was featured in the Netflix series ‘Bridgerton’, was destroyed in a blaze in 1940. Decades on, it is restored and its tapestries back in place

Newly attributed painting to be unveiled after a heroic conservation effort following serious damage from the Beirut explosion in 2020

The work has resumed its place at the Museo di San Marco after conservation work that has brought the Italian Renaissance artist’s masterly skill with colour and form to the fore

As for the famed Diego Rivera mural housed there, its owner promises that public access will be “prioritised and maintained”

Restorers were contaminated by lead dust when they scrubbed down the sculptures and decoration of the royal opera in the Château de Versailles

The UN body has brought several religious and other buildings in the Iraqi city back to life as part of an $115m programme

The work at the Museo Regional Michoacano Dr Nicolás León Calderón was obscured behind a false wall for decades

The cherub paintings that once looked down on Paul Revere will soon be back in all their original glory

The Louvre’s conservation of La Maestà sheds new light on the painter’s techniques and influences

The country has too many churches in areas with too few people—and too little money to maintain them

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President-Elect Donald Trump were in attendance as President Macron presided over the reopening of the famed Parisian monument

Restoration of the marble is expected to be a draw for the year-long event, which will allow public access to works in the Pope’s private collection as well as exhibitions across the Holy See and Rome

Over four years, and often perched on scaffolding, Axelle Ponsonnet has documented the project's progress behind the scenes

'Assassin’s Creed Unity' boasts a detailed virtual model of the cathedral—but not detailed enough for the restorers of the building

The painstaking work of archaeologists has uncovered two lost tombs and rare medieval masons’ marks

A small army of carpenters combined traditional craftmanship with digital design tools to rebuild the medieval roof frame known as "the forest"

Copper sculptures representing the Twelve Apostles and four New Testament Evangelists were removed for cleaning days before the fire

Faith, politics and emotion have fused in the rebuilding of the Paris cathedral partially destroyed by a fire in 2019

Six stand accused of negligence causing involuntary harm, including the culture ministry’s heritage operator, for its role in overseeing the restoration of the Château de Versailles

The architect rejected nationalistic solutions in favour of collaged restoration

The Italian Renaissance master’s few remaining large paintings are a conservation headache, but the museum hopes to show its Crossing of the Red Sea for the first time next year

Weeksville Heritage Center’s historic Hunterfly Road Houses will undergo a significant restoration

Multispectral imaging has uncovered that the baffling symbols in the 15th-century document—dubbed the world’s most mysterious manuscript—were scrutinised by its owner, a Prague doctor

Porto’s 600-year-old Leça do Balio monastery has found a new lease of life as cultural centre

President Emmanuel Macron wants to replace the Paris cathedral’s 19th-century windows, even though they were not damaged in 2019 fire

Masterpieces from Rome’s Galleria Borghese will be on show alongside the built-in Tiepolo frescos of the Jacquemart-André museum, a Belle Epoque mansion originally built for a wealthy banker and his portrait-painting wife