The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

Initiated 200 years ago, Museum Island was in ruins after World War II. Then the UNESCO World Heritage site was reborn thanks to a master plan. Standing as a testimony to Europe's architectural and ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands of the continent’s former colonisers. Europe is re-evaluating its colonial ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When construction began in Bloomsbury in 1823, the British Museum was said to be one of the biggest building ...

The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi will open to the public on 22 November in Saadiyat Cultural District, marking a ...

One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt in ...

Ahram Weekly continues tour of world Egyptological collections after the soft opening of Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum with a visit to the Neues Museum in Berlin The triumphant soft opening of the ...

For a $2 billion undertaking encompassing multiple projects within a 2.1 million-square-foot complex, the people directing the ongoing building efforts at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art talk a ...