National Gallery news

A free planning toolkit to help museums develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects has been launched by The Museums + AI Network – a group of ... More

James Mollison, the founding director of The National Gallery of Australia, has died aged 88. Mollison, who served as director of The NGA from 1977 ... More

Gergely Karácsony, mayor of Budapest, has brought plans to a halt for The New National Gallery in Budapest's City Park, claiming that the project will ... More

Visitor numbers to UK attractions grew by 8.7 per cent in 2018, according to the latest figures from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA). ... More

London's National Gallery is attempting to crack the US market, appointing a licensing agency to develop a multi-tiered retail strategy for the institution. The museum ... More

The National Gallery of Canada has appointed Art Gallery of Ontario European art curator Alexandra Suda as its new director. Coming in as the successor ... More

Marc Mayer is stepping down as director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada today to pursue new challenges, following a 10-year stint in ... More

Work has begun on a £22m (US$28.1m, €24.4m) revamp of Edinburgh’s National Galleries of Scotland, which will include a new access path, landscaping and wider ... More

The complete works of 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer – a collection of 36 paintings spread throughout 18 collections in Europe and the US – ... More

London’s National Gallery has revealed plans to open a series of pop-up "gallery cafés" across Asia, mixing famous pieces of art with a food and ... More

The National Gallery in London’s Room 32, its largest room, has closed for renovation work for more than a year following a £4m (US$5.2m, €4.5m) ... More

The House of Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto – the architect behind such projects such as The Serpentine Gallery and the Musashino Art University Museum ... More

The city of Melbourne is aiming to secure itself as Australia's culture capital, with the development of the country's largest contemporary art gallery and its ... More

France's museums have shown significant recovery following a tumultuous 2016, with the Louvre reclaiming top spot as the world's most visited museum in the latest ... More

The winners of this year’s Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence have been announced, with shortlisted projects celebrated and recognised across the museums, galleries, heritage ... More

Despite a decline in visitor numbers, London’s British Museum is still the UK’s most visited attraction, but Scotland reigns supreme, with the country outperforming the ... More

Construction of the new Museum of Ethnography is underway in Budapest, Hungary. Site clearance has begun in Városliget (City Park) and work started on the ... More

A selection of nominees are in contention for the European Museum of the Year Award 2018, with the judging panel revealing its shortlist of 40 ... More

One of London’s most famous monuments, the Admiralty Arch, is to be converted into a Waldorf Astoria hotel. The iconic building was commissioned by King ... More

Asia’s culture sector has experienced rapid growth in recent years, something exemplified by Beijing’s National Museum of China, which in 2016 was the world’s most ... More

A historic shakeup of Italy’s museum directors has been thrown into disarray, after the courts overruled a decision by the country’s Culture Ministry on the ... More

The popularity of attractions across the UK continues to rise, according to the annual report from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), with 130m ... More

MuseumNext is heading down under as the global conference series on the future of museums gears up for its debut in Melbourne, Australia. Produced in ... More

The studio of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels have agreed to design a new indoor football stadium for Greenland, according to media reports in the island ... More

Swiss studios Herzog & de Meuron and Vogt Landscape Architects have won the keenly-contested design competition for the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin. ... More