The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (United Kingdom) has opened six new galleries for the collections of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (present day Sudan).

The British Museum (London, United Kingdom) has announced this week the major acquisition of a complete set of Picasso's Vollard Suite, which will go on display at the Museum in the summer of 2012.

On the occasion of the Russia-Spain Dual Year, the Romantic Museum (Madrid, Spain) is hosting the exhibition Russian Romanticism at the time of Pushkin, a major exhibition that brings together a selection of works by leading Russian Romantic artists. Asunción Cardona, director of the Museum talks about the historical and cultural relations between Russia and Spain, and the development of the Russian interior paintings.

For the seventh year running, Photographic Social Vision is organizing the international World Press Photo exhibition. This year, the show that brings together the 170 winning photographs in the prestigious international photojournalism contest has recognised three Spanish photographers and two projects related to the Internet and social networks

Raphael's masterpieces Sistine Madonna and Madonna di Foligno. are now reunited in a special exhibition named Heavenly Splendour. Raphael, Dürer and Grünewald paint the Madonna, which is organized by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, (Germany) together with the Vatican Museums. Bernhard Maaz, Director of the museum, tells us everything about the exhibition.