The British Museum is stepping up the search for hundreds of antiquities, stolen in 2023, by hiring a dedicated treasure ...

When I first attended school to learn about material culture (physical objects made or modified by humans), my professor — a fantastic combination of Elmer Fudd and Vizzini from “The Princess Bride” — ...

LONDON (AP) — A museum is like an iceberg. Most of it is out of sight. Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage. But not at the new V&A ...

From 31 May, one of the world’s largest art and design museums is offering the public not just a rare peek behind the curtain, but a chance for visitors to poke about, see up close — and touch — ...

Archaeologists discovered artifacts for sale in a thrift shop. They decided to create a college course on what to do about ...

By Afolabi Grace FunmilayoMuseum documentation refers to the systematic recording of information about museum objects and collections, either manually or electronically. This includes details on ...

Most visitors at the Musée du Quai Branly walk past the 10-metre display case devoted to northeastern North America without ...

For eight years, the Maidan Museum in Kyiv has been exhibiting objects that tell personal stories of war and revolution. In the midst of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the museum is continuing to add ...

A view of Moving Objects: Learning from Local and Global Communities on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Last year, the Thai government sent a letter to the Asian Art Museum in San ...

Curators at the Maidan Museum in Kyiv are sifting through the rubble for items that “tell the story of ordinary people’s lives, of their deaths.” The Maidan Museum preserves personal items whose ...

Last year, the Thai government sent a letter to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco requesting the return of four ancient bronze statues depicting Buddhist spiritual figures — buddhas and ...