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After an £18.1m makeover courtesy of Wright & Wright Architects, the 18th-century almshouses that formerly housed the Geffrye Museum are reopening on 12 June under a new name. There is now 80 per cent more space for the museum’s collection of domestic fixtures and fittings through the ages. The temporary exhibition programme kicks off with the artist Polly Braden’s show ‘Holding the Baby’, which features photographic portraits of and interviews with single-parent households. Find out more from the Museum of the Home’s website.

This display at the Château de Fontainebleau presents an exceptional group of diplomatic gifts, offered by Shogun Iemochi to Napoleon III between 1860–64, shortly after Japan opened to the West in 1854. Among them are a group of 10 exquisite kakemono paintings on silk, a folding screen with a scene of a horseman among misty mountains painted on gold leaf, and cabinets with intricate lacquer panelling inlaid – in short, a collection fit for an emperor. The exhibition runs from 4 June to 20 September; find out more from the Château de Fontainebleau’s website.

Paul Cézanne believed that drawing taught him to ‘see well’, and the post-Impressionist’s works on paper often reveal him at his most innovative and daring. This display of some 250 works at MoMA (6 June–25 September) ranges from translucent watercolours to bold essays in linear perspective, and across Cézanne’s long career. Find out more from MoMA’s website.

The Sala del Doge is among the most spectacular rooms at the Palazzo Grimani in Venice. It was conceived by Giovanni Grimani as an homage to his grandfather Antonio, first doge of the family, and completed in 1568; decked out with alabaster, serpentine and porphyry, the room housed part of the famed Grimani collection of Greek and Roman sculpture. From 19 May–27 November 2022, the room returns to (something like) its former glory – new analysis of Giovanni Grimani’s inventories and other historical materials have allowed curators at the Museum of the Palazzo Grimani to relocate 20 class...

Eileen Agar played a key role in the Surrealist movement during the 1930s – this large survey at the Whitechapel Gallery (19 May–29 August) shows the range of her influences. She drew on everything from Cubism to classical sculpture in works that ranged from painting to found-object assemblages. With some 150 works, the display traces her seven-decade career from her early years studying at the Slade through to her inclusion in André Breton’s ‘International Surrealist Exhibition’ of 1936, and the prolific and varied output that followed. Find out more from the Whitechapel’s webs...