The federal government is pitching in nearly $5.2 million for Vancouver’s new Chinese Canadian Museum, billed as the first of its kind in the country. Roughly $3 million of the pot will go towards renovating the oldest building in the historic neighbourhood, the Wing Sang Building, where the museum will be housed.

Cultural Equity Plans are being created across the world and now one northern Illinois city is joining in. Some of its organizations, residents and other groups recently came together for the city’s first cultural plan conversation.

Lord Cultural Resources has been engaged by the Rockford Area Arts Council to develop the Rockford Region Cultural Plan to support a thriving arts and culture sector that will benefit all who live and work in the region.

May is BC Mining Month, and the Britannia Mine Museum is commemorating “100 Years of Mill No. 3” with a feature exhibit that will run till the end of the year.

Long Beach is one step closer to formally establishing a Cambodian American Cultural Center — a cultural and community resource intended to preserve the country’s history and culture, while uplifting the thousands of Cambodians who currently live in the city.

Photographs and time-based media by a creative agency renowned for its vibrant depictions of Black identities will be on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) during a year-long exhibition.

The Juno Beach Centre, Canada’s Second World War Museum and memorial in Normandy, France, announced that its Faces of Canada Today permanent exhibition will be entirely renewed and renovated for the 80th anniversary of D-Day in June 2024.

A trip to the Acropolis in Athens helped inspire architect David Gissen's new book, The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities and Landscapes Beyond Access.

Could a brighter future of positive staff and visitor experiences start with a better understanding of the nervous system? Here's why an advocate for trauma-informed practices believes so, and where she suggests museums start.

As museums are prioritizing social responsibility, so are their stores. Here are some of the ways museum stores are embracing environmentally friendly and inclusive products and practices.

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts reopened to the public last month, welcoming the Little Rock community for the first time since breaking ground on a four-year renovation and expansion project in 2019.

A sold-out Mother's Day tour at the Manitoba Museum offered a chance to learn about traditional Indigenous parenting practices.

The National Museum of African Art is again without a director after Ngaire Blankenberg quietly left the post on March 31. She had served in the role for less than two years.

The museum’s ambitious climate action plan, unveiled amidst a $60m expansion, calls for cutting its building emissions in half by 2025.

The Hunterian Museum has reopened, mindful of the changing ethics of displaying human remains.

On the edges of Buenos Aires, the Museum of Latin American Art has launched a second exhibition space. John Kampfner paid a visit.

The ProPublica investigation found that 85 percent of works donated by Charles and Valerie Diker lack complete ownership histories.

As trusted public institutions, museums create a cascading effect to foster positive change – from supporting climate action and fostering inclusivity, to tackling social isolation and improving mental health, to advancing Truth and Reconciliation.

Since 1874, the American Museum of Natural History has been slowly growing its footprint in Theodore Roosevelt Park on New York’s Upper West Side. This week, the beloved institution opens its latest expansion, the $465 million Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, which is designed to serve as a unifying force for a four-block campus built piecemeal over nearly 150 years.

Former Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce executive Jarred Howard worked behind the scenes for over seven years to spark the vision of building a National Juneteenth Museum to support economic revitalization in the surrounding Southside community.

Snøhetta recently completed a three-year transformation of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, and it is now ready to welcome the public. The design team sought to create a welcoming gateway that connects the University campus and the vibrant city of Austin.

Dutch architecture office UNStudio has revealed its design for the Dadu, Children's Museum of Qatar at an exhibition of upcoming museums in Qatar during the Venice Architecture Biennale.

The new arts venue offers fabrication facilities for ceramic, print, and public art, as well as space for education and events.

A new exhibition curated by Radiotron founder Carmelo Alvarez explores the organization’s influence on graffiti and breakdancing in the West Coast.

Canada’s museums and galleries will be busy this summer. The sector has emerged from the pandemic with lots of bright ideas about how to draw visitors.

Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading".

Cultural Emergency Response, an “ambulance” for the world, is dedicated to saving treasures from all kinds of natural and man-made disasters.

An exhibit by Paul Seesequasis called Turning the Lens: Indigenous Archival Project at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina features photos of Indigenous people from as far back as the late 1910s until the 1960s.

Experiential art spaces are cropping up worldwide. Critics pan them, audiences love them and they have the attention of the art world.

Many artists are using the latest A.I.-powered digital techniques to create a nostalgic past — an ironic throwback.

Collecting visitor data has long been important to cultural institutions. But as Cesare Fialà explains, the fast-developing fields of AI and machine learning are making it possible to dramatically improve the way that people flow is monitored and forecasted.