An expanded and transformed San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to open in May The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced that a its new building will open to the public on Saturday 14 May. Read more

Historic England has announced that the sculptures listed by the DCMS include an Anthony Gormley masterpiece, his first to be listed, three Barbara Hepworth sculptures, a Henry Moore outside the Houses of Parliament and pieces depicting a range… Read more

Museum Selfie Day brings the world’s museums together with 30k tweets and an 80m reach Museums and their visitors from around the world were tweeting like a rumbustious robin yesterday as they took part in the @MuseumSelfieDay Things began stirring… Read more

Museum Development Network offers help for Museums + Heritage Awards entrants As the deadline for entries to the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence moves into the final ten days the Museum Development Network officers from around the UK are… Read more

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the 300-year-old ebony cabinets to provide an opportunity to save them for the nation. Experts say that they are among the most important cabinets from Rome left in Britain… Read more

V&A Museum designed exhibition features at this week’s World Economic Forum With the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum, which opens today – Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution – as context, the exhibition presents six scenarios where the radical… Read more

The National Galleries of Scotland and Tate have announced that Phyllida Barlow will be the 40th artist to join the Artist Rooms collection with her untitled: upturnedhouse, 2, made in 2012, going on display… Read more

Saat Saath Arts Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by philanthropist Aparajita Jain, has launched an annual grant that facilitates visionary international curators to visit India The curatorial research grant has the long-term goal of fostering cultural exchange with India and… Read more

Richard Pailthorpe, Director of the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, has announced that he will be focusing on delivering the Museum’s £5.5million new Gateway Project for the most of the next 18 months as its Project Director. Read more

The Interventive Conservation success guide is the latest in a series of Success Guides that aim to assist museums, galleries and heritage sites in maintaining their collections more effectively The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) has published a new Success… Read more

The ten students on the Museum and Gallery Skills Diploma at Kendal Museum, a teaching museum for Kendal College, were on hand to rescue objects from both the museum and the 14th century Castle Dairy. Following storm… Read more

The Flying Scotsman has been fully restored in one of the most complex and lengthy overhauls for a steam locomotive ever undertaken and will now continue her life as one of the world’s most famous steam engine. The Scotsman will… Read more

The relocation of the Museum of London is set to take place after redevelopment plans for the Victorian Smithfield Market were abandoned The museum said it does not currently have the space to present its collections properly, or demonstrate the… Read more

Most of these 16 projects focus on the refurbishment or extension of existing arts buildings and range from upgrades of spaces to large scale renovations. The successful applicants have now been invited to complete a stage two application within the… Read more

The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell is the result of a collaboration between the museum and Newcastle University where the extensive Gertrude Bell Archive is held and is drawn from Bell’s prolific correspondence, papers and photographs, and will also feature… Read more