Collecting
Christmas at the Smithsonian's Dolls' House Includes All the Trimmings—in Miniature
It's 'Deck the Halls' with Christmas cheer at the beloved Victorian-style dollhouse at the National Museum of American History
The British Museum Was a Wonder of Its Time—But Also a Product of Slavery
A new book explores the little-known life and career of Hans Sloane, whose collections led to the founding of the British Museum
At an Army Base in Kansas, There's a Secret Collection of Incredible Finds
Are these priceless artifacts or worthless trinkets? No one knows for sure, but a local art gallery is pitching in to find out
The Art Monet Owned
A new exhibit looks inside the mind of this influential Impressionist through the lens of the works he collected
A Scholar Follows a Trail of Dead Mice and Discovers a Lesson in Why Museum Collections Matter
A former Smithsonian curator authors a new book, <i>Inside the Lost Museum</i>
New Video Game Parodies What it Means to Be an Art World Star
On Passpartout: The Starving Artist, you do everything from virtually impress collectors to dine on wine and baguettes
This Towering 19th-Century Mechanical Clock Was the Smartwatch of Its Era
With hundreds of moving parts, the Great Historical Clock of America has been revived
Why These Humans Are Museum Treasures, Too
A portrait photographer captured 24 staffers from the National Museum of Natural History posing with their favorite artifacts from the collections
The Campaign Is On to Save the Natural History Collections of a Louisiana University
The school is displacing millions of specimens in favor of a new track
Collection of Fossilized Poo Certified as World's Largest
George Frandsen's 1,200-piece coprolite collection earns the Florida man a spot in Guinness World Records
Explore Haunting Relics of Death With New Photography Book
Placenta-wiping fetuses are only the tip of the frightberg
This Is What 3,000 Photos of Teddy Bears Look Like
An exhibition at The New Museum takes collection obsession to an over-the-top (but adorable) extreme
The Government Just Won a Long Legal Battle Over Rare Coins
The enigmatic Double Eagles are anything but trinkets
How Do Smithsonian Curators Decide What to Collect at the Political Conventions?
For Smithsonian’s Lisa Kathleen Graddy and Jon Grinspan, it’s trying to guess what people of the future will want to know about 2016
How the Nazis “Normalized” Anti-Semitism by Appealing to Children
A new museum and exhibit explore the depths of the hatred toward Europe’s Jews
Five of the Best Beaches for Beachcombing in the U.S.
On the hunt for seashells and other buried treasure? Here’s where to look
Eight Awesome Maps From Stanford's New David Rumsey Map Center
A collection of 150,000 historic maps merges paper and digital images in new ways
Teddy Roosevelt's Epic (But Strangely Altruistic) Hunt for a White Rhino
In a new book, a Smithsonian naturalist tells the gritty, controversial tale of how one of America’s presidents felled a threatened species
Where Museums Go to Shop for Rare Works of Art
In the south of Holland, a Dutch city plays host to the art world’s biggest collectors
Muggles Are Selling the Chair in Which 'Harry Potter' Was Created
The decorated dining room chair J.K. Rowling used to write her iconic novels is going on sale
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