Metropolitan Museum of Art news

Museum Hack, the alternative private museum tour company that emphasises entertainment alongside education, has hinted at international expansion and further ambitious plans, following its sale ... More

Temporary exhibitions and geopolitical changes continue to serve as key attendance drivers for museums in Europe, which remains the global market leader for attendance in ... More

The winners of the Museums + Heritage Awards were announced in London last night (15 May), with museums large and small being honoured and Sir ... More

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has broken its attendance record, with more than 7.35 million visitors coming through its doors in the last year. ... More

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has shaken up its leadership structure, with the appointment of interim director Daniel Weiss as its new president and ... More

London practice Serie Architects have revealed new images of their design for the Jameel Arts Centre (JAC) in Dubai and confirmed the facility will open ... More

Thomas H Campbell, director of New York’s Museum of Metropolitan Art, has resigned following reports that trustees and colleagues had become “disillusioned” with his leadership ... More

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has adopted a new digital policy – making all images of public-domain artworks in the New York institution’s collection available ... More

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation’s deputy director is to step down from his role in order to launch a new independent design studio ... More

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has introduced health and fitness sessions before public opening hours, offering its audience the chance to go on a ... More

An expansive new complex for for the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has topped out in China. Set in an ... More

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has delayed plans to redevelop its southwest wing by as long as seven years, as the famous institution aims ... More

Acclaimed British artist Cornelia Parker has taken inspiration from the paintings of Edward Hopper and the ominous Bates mansion from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho to ... More

New York’s iconic Met Breuer building re-opens today (18 March) following a period of renovation to recreate Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer’s original vision for the ... More

Nick Gray, founder and CEO of Museum Hack, has said the most important thing about educating a millennial audience in museums and galleries is to ... More

A 12-year-old boy took the trip of a lifetime on Sunday when he stumbled into a 17th-century still life, puncturing the canvas with his hand ... More

New research from Google has revealed that London’s art galleries, museums and arts performances are the most searched for anywhere in the world. For international ... More

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has chosen David Chipperfield Architects to design and oversee the gutting and rebuilding of its new south-west ... More

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is to sell US$250m (€218m, £166.1m) of taxable bonds to finance future infrastructure projects. As of 30 June 2014, ... More

Experienced art curator Dr Nicholas Cullinan has been appointed as the new director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having first worked there as ... More

Renzo Piano’s dramatic new building for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York’s Meatpacking District has entered the final phase of construction, with ... More

US secretary of state John Kerry will be on-hand later today (22 September) to highlight the destruction of Iraq and Syria’s cultural heritage by violent ... More

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in the US has made 394,000 iconic works of art available to the public for free download. Visitors to ... More

London’s British Museum is now one of three in the UK capital to be among the 10 most visited museums in the world, alongside the ... More

The Louvre in Paris remains the world’s most visited museum, beating nearest rival the British Museum in London by more than 1.5 million visitors. The ... More