Museums
How an Expedition to the Galápagos Islands Saved One of the World’s Largest Natural History Museums
A soon-to-be digitized and publicly accessible collection of specimens helped resurrect the California Academy of Sciences
Why a Long-Awaited Artemisia Gentileschi Exhibition Is So Significant
The Baroque painter is the subject of the London National Gallery's first major show dedicated to a female artist
The World's First Happiness Museum Opens in Denmark
The Nordic country is consistently ranked among the planet's happiest
Venture Down a VR Rabbit Hole With This Free 'Alice in Wonderland' Tour
The Victoria and Albert Museum will host a free, Lewis Carroll-inspired virtual reality experience on October 22
Fredericksburg's Slave Auction Block Will Be Moved to a Museum
Curators plan on preserving graffiti added by Black Lives Matter protesters
Wood Carvings Document Faith, Injustice and Hope in 20th-Century America
A new exhibition centered on self-taught black artist Elijah Pierce is now on view in Philadelphia
Understanding the Controversy Over Postponed Exhibition Featuring KKK Imagery
A major Philip Guston retrospective scheduled to travel to D.C., London, Houston and Boston will now take place in 2024
A Dutch Museum Will Display All 150,000 Objects in Its Collections
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's unique storage facility is slated to open in fall 2021
The World's Largest Chocolate Museum Debuts in Switzerland
Launched by Lindt, the attraction features a 30-foot-tall chocolate fountain and a tour of the sweet treat's history
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch on How the Institution Builds Its Collections
Finding the next awe-inspiring artifact requires flexibility, help from the community—and a healthy dose of good luck
You Can Now Explore 103 'Lost' Hokusai Drawings Online
Newly acquired by the British Museum, the trove of illustrations dates to 1829
The World’s First Entirely Virtual Art Museum Is Open for Visitors
VOMA—the Virtual Online Museum of Art—is a free and fully immersive art experience
Movie Museum to Open With Show Honoring Japanese Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' inaugural exhibition debuts on April 30, 2021
How Will Covid-19 Change the Way Museums Are Built?
The global pandemic will have long-lasting effects on the form and function of future museums
Oxford Museum Permanently Removes Controversial Display of Shrunken Heads
Citing the exhibit's reinforcement of "racist and stereotypical thinking," the Pitt Rivers Museum moved a total of 120 human remains into storage
How Chicago Became a Monet Destination
A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago explores the Impressionist painter's connection to the Midwestern city
Metropolitan Museum of Art Hires First Full-Time Curator of Native American Art
Patricia Marroquin Norby previously worked at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian–New York
Why the Houston Museum of African American Culture Is Displaying a Confederate Statue
The institution describes the move, which arrives amid a reckoning on the U.S.' history of systemic racism, as "part of healing"
What a 1,000-Year-Old Seal Skull Can Tell Us About Climate Change
In a new study, scientists explain how a seal native to the South Atlantic, but found in Indiana, likely swam to the middle of North America
Painting Deemed Fake, Consigned to Storage May Be Genuine Rembrandt
New analysis confirms the famed Dutch painter’s studio—and perhaps even the artist himself—created "Head of a Bearded Man"
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