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This App Puts a Museum in Your Phone

Get out and get some culture with a newly released app that gives art a smart spin

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Museum Unveils Henry VIII’s Flagship

The Mary Rose sank almost 500 years ago, but following more than 30 years of restoration, the remains of the warship are open to the public

Cultural treasure—or stolen goods?

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Britain’s Most Famous Plundered Art Could Finally Go Home

There’s a new attempt to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece

"Snap-the-Whip" (Winslow Homer, 1873)

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This Exhibit Captures the Magic of Being a Kid

The Metropolitan Museum of Art peeks into the idealized lives of kids past

"Prudence" (before conservation) Andrea della Robbia (Italian (Florentine), 1435–1525) Ca. 1475 Glazed terracotta Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1921

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This Renaissance Sculptor Is Getting His First U.S. Show

Luca della Robbia is finally getting a showcase in the States

Tankard made in Westerwald, German , found along with lots of tanning debris in a privy associated with a small house on an alley that probably be longed to tanner.

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Tens of Thousands of Artifacts Have Been Found in Colonial Philadelphia Toilets

Archaeologists excavating the site of the Museum of the American Revolution found a dozen privy pits full of pottery, printing supplies and animal bones

Self-Portrait on the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States, 1932, by Frida Kahlo (Colección Maria y Manuel Reyero, New York)

Explore Frida Kahlo’s Mexico City

Here are four places with connections to the late Mexican artist to visit on her birthday, July 6, and beyond

What could be more relatable than a president and first lady in bed?

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These Artifacts Show the Best—And Worst—of American Election Ephemera

From trash to political treasure

A schematic design of the upcoming “Icebergs” installation for the National Building Museum

Age of Humans

A Maze of Palatial Icebergs Has Floated Into a Washington, D.C. Museum

The new exhibition touches on design, landscape architecture, the life of icebergs and climate change

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This Pass Might Help Get More Toddlers Into New York City’s Museums

The Cool Culture pass helps low-income families introduce their children to cultural institutions

The new International Center for Photography Museum is located in New York's bustling Bowery.

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Take a Peek Inside the International Center for Photography’s New Home

The Center’s newest exhibition explores what it means to be constantly in front of the lens

Rijksmuseum and chill.

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Explore the Netherlands’ Most Iconic Museum

The Rijksmuseum is now the best-represented institution in the Google Cultural Institute

The "Persian Ceiling" installation at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2013

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Sculptor’s New Show is a Riot of Color

Dale Chihuly sets out to “overwhelm with light and color” in ‘Persian Ceiling’

One of the board games in the collections of the Museum of World War II

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

Hemingway made this airy estate his Cuban home away from home—and wrote some of his most famous novels here.

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As U.S.-Cuba Relations Warm, This Long-Dead Author Benefits

A new conservation facility is on its way to Hemingway’s home near Havana

An illustration of the Tate Modern's new Switch House expansion.

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The Expanded Tate Modern Opens Its Doors Friday

The museum is being called the UK’s most important new cultural building since the British Library

An exterior rendering of the museum, set to open in April 2017.

A New Museum Is Bringing Relics of the Revolutionary War Into Public View for the First Time in Decades

Scheduled to open next year in Philadelphia, the museum will immerse visitors into the time when the American colonies became the United States

Untitled, 2016, Jack Ludden. Digital photomontage of Self-portrait, 2014 (left), Self-portrait, 1989 (right), and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1989

How a Museum Cancelling a Controversial Mapplethorpe Exhibition Changed My Life

As an intern at the Corcoran, I suddenly understood the power of art

A skin affliction on display at the Moulage Museum.

See Over 2,000 Wax Models of Skin Diseases at This Swiss Medical Moulage Museum

It’s hard to look, and hard to look away, at this unique, and medically valuable, collection of wax blisters, hives and sores

La Cité du Vin.

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Bordeaux’s New Wine Museum Is Open for Business

The “City of Wine” is a vino lover’s amusement park

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