The Best Little Museum You Never Visited in Paris
The Museum of Arts and Crafts is a trove of cunning inventions
In L.A. There’s a Warehouse Filled with Whale Bones
A video offers a tour of the Whale Warehouse, which holds a large part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s marine mammal collection
150 Years Ago, a Fire in P.T. Barnum’s Museum Boiled Two Whales Alive
Attracting tourists and locals alike, the museum mixed freakshow performers with educational collections
One Man’s Obsession With Antique Toys Resulted in a Museum
The Portland, Oregon, attraction is more than just the stuff of Kidd’s play
Bringing Thomas Jefferson’s Battered Tombstone Back to Life
The founding father’s fragile grave marker has survived for centuries, enduring souveniring, a fire and errant repairs
Shine On: Jeff Koons in Bilbao
Frank Gehry’s titanium-clad Guggenheim plays host to a stunning survey of Koons’s larger-than-life career
Why Taxidermy Is Being Revived for the 21st Century
A new generation of young practitioners is leading a resurgence in this centuries-old craft
The New Shanghai Natural History Museum is Ancient, Modern and Uniquely Chinese
The nautilus-shaped building draws on Chinese traditions and 21st century design to house amazing specimens found nowhere else
There is an Ikea Museum at the Company’s Headquarters in Sweden
The main focus is Ikea’s designs throughout the decades
3D Copies of Art Let the Blind Experience Classic Works in New Ways
In this museum, touching the paintings is allowed
These History-Making Artifacts Can Only be Found at Presidential Libraries
From coconut shells to boat cloaks, these mementos tell fascinating tales from American presidential history
Germany Just Opened a Nazi Museum in the Party’s Former Headquarters
70 years later, Munich’s mayor says the city is ready to “face up to its Nazi past”
The Media Needs a History Lesson When Addressing Civic Unrest, Says the Director of the African American History Museum
Lonnie Bunch discusses social justice and the role of museums during times of upheaval
Where to Celebrate the History of American Jazz
These six spots are just a short riff on what makes the musical genre particular to the United States
The Adorable and Heroic Animals of the Museum of Maritime Pets
Telling the stories of dogs in sailor hats and cats in life jackets
A Kit to Build Your Own Mud Battery and Other Wild Ideas That Just Got Funded
Also, a campaign to build a Little Free Museum
As Part of a Museum Dance Off, National Museum of American History Breaks it Down
Twenty-eight museums around the world vie for the ultimate honor
Back to Brontosaurus? The Dinosaur Might Deserve Its Own Genus After All
The popular name could be pulled back out of the scientific wastebasket, based on new analysis of dozens of related dinosaurs
Cash-Strapped Museums are Selling Their Art
Faced with budget cuts and debt, museums turn to “deaccessioning”
Inside Los Angeles’s Strangest Museum
Enter the dark and completely unique world of the Museum of Jurassic Technology
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