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“We failed.” This was the crux of an important speech that George Osborne delivered as chair of the British Museum in November. Speaking at the annual trustees’ dinner, he was referring to the scandal that beset the institution last summer, when it emerged that, “over probably several decades” (as he put it), around 2,000 objects from its storerooms had been stolen or damaged – allegedly by a senior staff member who has since been dismissed. The museum, ...

Applications have opened to lead the beleaguered institution. But whoever gets the job faces a herculean task

The posting for the job, with a salary of about $275,000, acknowledges multiple challenges after the museum's theft scandal.

The museum is seeking a new leader to manage the fallout from recent thefts and demands to return contested items. Applicants have two weeks to apply.

Scientists have applied x-ray imagining techniques to Rembrandt's The Night Watch to uncover new layers just beneath the painting's surface.

Have art books, will travel. And this year’s prime selections clock up a lot of visual, historical and personal mileage. We get an up-close tour

The Rijksmuseum called 2023 “a historic year” in a press release. 2.7 million people visited the museum in 2023. The Vermeer exhibition, which ran for four months this spring, was the best-attended exhibition in the history of the museum.

A pair of small portraits by 17th-century Dutch Master Rembrandt van Rijn have gone on display after a long-term loan to the Netherlands’ national art and history museum. The Rijksmuseum

Having disappeared for almost two centuries, Rembrandt’s smallest formal portraits have been put on display in Amsterdam after being rediscovered earlier this year.

Researchers at the museum worked to establish that Rembrandt painted the portraits using high-tech scans and paint analysis.