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It’s hard to ignore the number of people who take selfies in museums. But should we see this fad as a new way of appreciating...
Adam Reed Rozan, Director, Programs & Audience Development, National Museum of AmericanHistory Cultural organizations have historically shied away from taking on complex social issues through...
Melting alarm clocks? A mini fridge of Campbell’s soup cans? What really goes into a museum hotel? Museums are constantly looking for new ways to...
A picture that was discovered late last year has been finally established as a missing portrait by Gustav Klimt, the Austrian artist who is perhaps...
The famous Ionic columns that welcome visitors to the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minnesota have been transformed by the celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei....
The Rembrandt year is over. About five years ago, the directors of four major Dutch museums first came together to prepare the 2019 celebration of...
Storytelling lie at the heart of museums, but are they using stories to their maximum potential? This was a core question at the Future of...
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has embarked on a programme of hiring refugees and immigrants who have direct knowledge of some...
Botswana National Museum ventured into a mutual partnership with the San peoples of the Kalahari Desert to establish an eco-museum known as the Kuru Museum...
What does your museum sound like? I’m not referring to the chatter of schoolchildren or the ambient hum of dehumidifiers. I mean what do the...
A modern take on the historic struggle to liberate the French capital from Nazi oppression has been launched at the Museum of the Liberation of...
When you think of the latest innovations that are allowing museums around the world to reach new audiences, perhaps snail jokes aren’t top of your...
The Prado Museum in Madrid has joined forces with the best-known conservation group on the planet, the WWF, to raise awareness about the negative impacts...
A new museum devoted entirely to the seaside resort town of Blackpool is due to open in 2021 but the creative team behind the project...
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has announced a new collaboration with the Dutch fashion brand, Daily Paper. The hip streetwear brand was originally a...
In February, the House of Representatives in the United States voted to pass a bill that will see a new museum constructed in the capital...
Located in the London Borough of Camden, the Jewish Museum has elected to leave the group of National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) it had joined in...
Activists who want to highlight the issue of climate change have taken their own version of the famous Trojan Horse to the British Museum. The...
The historic manuscript laying out the original plans to revive the Olympic Games was today donated to The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, almost 130 years after...
The coronavirus outbreak in several cities of China has led to some drastic measures including the construction of a huge new medical facility in the...
Under the hashtag #ColorOurCollections, a growing number of institutions around the world have been encouraging people to colour in their black and white exhibits to...
Some of the best-known natural history museums and similar institutions in Australia have called on the government to take more action in the country in...
