Museums – magpie

Can AI ‘humanise’ museums? Can humans humanise AI?

25 October 2026

The cover of ReMuseum’s Five Ways AI Can Humanise Museums has the somewhat cliché image of Adam’s Sistine Chapel hand reaching out to a robotic simulacrum of God’s. It begs all kinds of questions – who’s reaching out to who? [… more]

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi gets its opening date: 11 December 2026

28 July 2026

It may have taken 20 years, but at last we have a firm opening date for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. On 11 December it joins New York, Venice and Bilbao in the Guggenheim Foundation’s desire to bring post-1960s art to the [… more]

Winners (and some losers) in the museum business

1 April 2026

Something over 204 million visitors were recorded by the world’s top 100 museums in 2025, according to the latest attendance rankings collated by The Art Newspaper. There are many caveats in this league table – for instance, “museums that did not [… more]

How to take care

1 May 2024

Art Jameel’s new Collection Care Fellowship is one of those moves that don’t usually grab the headlines but which probably deserves to. It’s all about practical aspects of museum and public art gallery work including conservation, archives and digitalisation, documentation, [… more]

Doing business with Hong Kong

2 April 2024

During Art Basel Hong Kong (which ran 28-30 March), the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority – the body that oversees multiple HK museums, including the spectacular M+ museum – announced that it had signed 20 memoranda of understanding with 21 [… more]

1.2m visitors for Louvre Abu Dhabi: doing well, will do better

2 April 2024

In 2023, Louvre Abu Dhabi recorded a total 1,247,076 visitors. And in the middle of last month, it passed the five million mark for the just over five years since it opened in November 2017; the museum hasn’t made a [… more]