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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...

Paris Musées, a consortium of 14 different museums and art galleries in the French capital, announced in January that it would now offer around 150,000 digital...

One of London’s most prestigious art galleries has courted controversy in the art world following its decision to advertise a job on its website that...

Unsplash is the largest platform for freely sharing photos in the world. With more than 60 million image downloads and 10 billion views every month,...

When flames were seen at New York’s Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), few could have realised just how devastating the fire would be. The...

The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London announced today a Manifesto outlining its platform for action and the steps it will take to mitigate against...

Hong Kong has followed mainland China is closing its museums indefinitely as part of efforts to contain the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic which started in the...

Museums are complex organisations and technology has to some extent made them more complicated. The Natural History Museum in London, for example, has more than...

Street artists have few outlets for their work in mainstream galleries. Indeed, some of the most famous practitioners of graffiti art, such as Banksy, say...

Digital techniques, including the use of augmented reality (AR), have been put to use in the museum sector before, usually in the field of artistic...

On Monday, the world-renowned auction house, Christie’s, announced that would be presenting a new performance art installation using mixed reality technology by the leading conceptual...

“Blockbuster” is no longer a term reserved for high-grossing movies or best-selling novels. Turns out, it can also refer to museum culture. Attendance figures will...

The Natural History Museum in London has declared an 11-year plan to deal with its part in the changing climate in what it has declared...

The international museum day theme for 2020 “Museums for equality: Diversity and Inclusion” calls on museums to open doors for diverse audience. However, Researchers in...

The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City was subject to an anti-capitalist protest which came in the form of an internet-based hack...

Almost anyone who has been working in museums for any length of time will have stories about bad managers. They are nearly impossible to avoid...

In Bremen, the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, which was founded in 1991, decided to take a new approach to the way it would charge...

For the first time, a Canadian university — the University of Guelph — is reconciling with its history of teaching eugenics. Few universities in Canada...

The National Archives and Records Administration has publicly apologised for its controversial decision to doctor a photograph it had been using as an exhibit since...