The American Museum of Natural History has opened a new exhibition, Monarch’s Journey, featuring the work of award-winning graphic novelist and environmentalist Peter Kuper and celebrating the remarkable annual migration of monarch butterflies from the northern U.S. and Canada to central Mexico.

A former High Museum of Art executive was sentenced to 12 months in federal prison on Monday after admitting to stealing more than $600,000 from the museum, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Due to its success in 2023, The Poor Man’s Rembrandt Project is returning to the Rembrandt House Museum, according to the museum’s official website. Henk Schiffmacher and his team of tattoo artists will set up their studio in Rembrandt’s house. For two weeks, visitors can get an original Rembrandt tattoo from this world-famous team.

Two museums in Glasgow have removed the remains of ancient Egyptian mummies from display amid concerns that it is no longer ethical to display human remains, with a note: “We have removed human remains from this display as a mark of respect,” the BBC reports. 

The Smithsonian announces two new galleries opening at the National Air and Space Museum, marking the completion of the full renovation of its Washington, D.C. 

The first gallery opening, “At Home in Space,” covers the Space Shuttle and International Space Station era of space exploration and opens in October. 30. It will be followed by the “Modern Military Aviation” gallery opening in November. 11, which covers military aviation since World War II.

The Louvre was closed Monday, October 19, due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance.

From October, six large-scale reproductions of artworks from the Getty Museum’s collection will be installed across Paris, bringing some of the world’s most celebrated works into the city’s public spaces through a partnership between Getty and L’Art dans la Ville. The installations will be on view through November 30, 2026. 

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science have successfully completed a mediation process, according to the museum’s official website. The agreement provided funding for the renovation, securing the future of the museum and its collection.

The Met has raised $670 million for the upcoming reconstruction - the 126,000-square-foot reimagined space that will open to the public in 2030. 

Breathtaking Claude Monet exhibition opening at Tate Modern in London next year (March-June 2027). The exhibition is officially titled Monet: Painting Time. 

After nearly 200 years, the historic Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia will permanently close its public museum operations on September 30, 2026.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced that he will retire from his position, concluding nearly 38 years of service at the Smithsonian and a career that has shaped the museum field in the United States and beyond, Smithsonian Media releases.

A couple of days ago, the Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace was stolen from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts.

A gallery at London’s Natural History Museum, closed since 1943, will reopen on 16 September, the BBC reports.

AAM announced that the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo, the largest museum event, will take place in Houston from May 5 to 8, 2027.

Four works attributed to Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina were stolen from a regional museum in Messina, Sicily, during Italy’s Ferragosto holiday, according to cultural officials and Italian media.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age copper-smelting and metal workshop in Georgia

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, located on Saadiyat Island, is set to open on December 11, 2026