Museums and Institutions

A medieval panel discovered above a stove in a kitchen in France has been bought by The Louvre Museum.

Police are appealing for information after a collection of antique silver was stolen from a museum near Worksop in Nottinghamshire.

A previously lost tapestry, commissioned by Henry VIII during the turmoil of the English Reformation, is a step closer to returning to the UK.

The British Museum has announced plans to digitally document its entire collection.

A painting by a Scottish Impressionist has been recovered with the help of Art Loss Register (ALR) and Tennants Auctioneers after being stolen in 1989.

English Heritage has bought a Dutch Golden Age painting that had previously been on loan to one of its properties in South Yorkshire.

The British Museum has begun a series of measures to try to recover the 2000 jewellery items that were stolen from its collection.

A third stolen Martinware bird has been recovered more than 15 years after it was stolen in west London.

British Museum director Hartwig Fischer has announced that he will be stepping down from his position with immediate effect after a series of thefts emerged.

Twenty years ago a man walked into Anne Boleyn’s bedroom at Hever Castle and stole five miniature portraits from a glass vitrine cabinet.

The British Museum is investigating the theft of jewellery and has dismissed a member of staff following the discovery that items from its “collection were found to be missing, stolen or damaged”.