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Museums

Are ghosts haunting the British Museum?

Inexplicable noises, spectral sightings, sudden drops in temperature – something strange is going on at the British Museum. As the clamour over colonial restitution grows, Killian Fox investigates the collection’s restless objects

An oasis of art

The Louvre Abu Dhabi has been ten years in the making. As Simon Willis discovered when he visited, it is a museum of globalisation

Two shrines one saint

Two new museums – in Paris and Marrakech – pay homage to the artistry of Yves Saint Laurent. Fiammetta Rocco takes the tour

Continental gift

Cape Town unveils a new museum which it hopes will become the epicentre of African contemporary art. Carlos Amato takes a tour

On masks

The novelist John Burnside joins Matthew Sweet to discuss his return to the House of Ensor in Ostend, Belgium

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