Museums
The Unexpected Afterlife of Ill-Gotten Wildlife Goods
Contraband pelts and scales can serve as educational tools, add to research collections and even offer clues back to smugglers
Plans for the Emanuel Nine Memorial Unveiled
The monument to the nine black parishioners slain in Charleston in 2015 will include two wing-like benches that arc around a marble fountain
Preserved Māori Head Returns to New Zealand
The sacred items were once widely collected by Europeans. In recent years, New Zealand has worked to secure the repatriation of these ancestral remains
Exhibit Reveals Rings From Freud's "Secret Committee"
The founder of psychoanalysis handed out the rings to students, colleagues and friends who supported and spread his theories
Seven Artists Explore New Orleans' Forgotten Histories
A new exhibit timed to the city's tricentennial explores The Big Easy's diverse and sometimes troubled past
Interactive, Digital Art Museum Opens in Tokyo
Touch digital birds, sip flower tea and more at the world's largest digital art museum
You'll Have to Take a Boat Ride and a Hike Through the Forest to Get to France's Newest Art Museum
A new French museum puts an out-of-the-box spin on the usual gallery experience
What a Cabinet of Fake Noses Tells Us About How Art Preservation Has Evolved
The collection of replica appendages is on display in Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum
Museum Ties Portraits of the Wealthy to Their Slaveholding Pasts
New signs at the Worcester Art Museum illuminate how wealthy New Englanders benefitted from the slave trade
The Neuroscientist in the Art Museum
At Massachusetts's Peabody Essex Museum, Tedi Asher is using neuroscience research to create impactful art experiences
Mountaintop Museum Highlights the History of Bond—James Bond
The new 007 Elements museum is built into the top of an Alpine mountain and features a full-size airplane from the movie <i>Spectre</i>
The Getty Is Fighting to Keep a Rare Greek Bronze
An Italian magistrate has ordered that the statue, which was discovered in the Adriatic Sea by Italian fishermen, be returned to Italy
The V&A Wants Your Help Locating Vintage Mary Quant Designs
The Welsh fashion designer pioneered high street fashion, popularizing bright patterns, miniskirts and hot pants
New Gadget Brings Fish Up From the Ocean's "Twilight Zone"
The portable decompression chamber allows SCUBA-diving scientists to safely collect specimens without them, well, exploding
High-Tech Scanning Shows Picasso's Blue Period Evolution
A new study of "La Soupe" reveals it underwent as many as 13 layers of revision
Sink Your Teeth Into Chicago’s New Hot Dog Museum
The Vienna Beef company is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a meaty display of memorabilia
"Hidden" Attic in Westminster Abbey Is Opening as a Museum
Visitors can view more than 300 relics from the Abbey’s 1,000-year history <i>and</i> peer out at one of the best views in Europe
X-Rays Show That Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Will One Day Wilt
A new analysis shows that half of the canvas held in Amsterdam is painted with pigments that darken with exposure to UV light
Ida O’Keeffe Is Finally Getting Her First Solo Museum Exhibition
Georgia O’Keeffe’s younger sister was also an artist, and this fall the Dallas Museum of Art is bringing her work into the spotlight
For the First Time, See Historically Excluded Black Folk Artists at the Met
'History Refused to Die' shows off the masterful works made by self-taught artists from the American South
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