The world's largest archaeological museum is poised to open on the Giza Plateau, building on two centuries of museum planning and development.

For "Yo Soy Museo" at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago artist Alberto Aguilar mines the relationship between the museum and the artist, cannily playing with notions of display and presentation. Having the distinction of being the first exhibition in the museum's history to not have to take out a single loan agreement, "Yo […]

Recently Kim's been obsessing over museums, her new "hobby." Here she reads from her latest report. Mildly unpleasant Dead Pinky Story also included. For…

For such a small country, Switzerland has an extreme love for museums about the most incredible subjects, including some excellent museums dedicated to computer history. These museums feature fanta…

Museums hold billions of biological specimens, many of which still contain DNA.

As institutions around the world deal with various challenges—politically and economically—it is worth asking if museums have lost their authority.

The museum honours the waves of immigrants who came to New York in search of a better life

In the 1960s and '70s, guides began wearing period costumes and farming with historical techniques, a change that coincided with the back-to-the-land movement.

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) on August 24 finalized the new definition of the term "museum." The Paris-based organization came to its decision on the matter during the 26th ICOM General Conference, in Prague. Four hundred eight-seven members, roughly 92 percent of those assembled, agreed on the new definition; 23 voted against it and 17 abstained. The vote followed four rounds of consultations over…

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These are the best museums in Washington, D.C. We've included well-known Smithsonian offerings as well as excellent places you might not have heard about yet.

There's money to be made, though most institutions are wary of getting involved.

Pittsburgh has made another "Best Of" list, just in time for people to make their travel plans for the summer. The latest ranking named two of the city's museums among the best in the country. A USA Today 10Best Reader's Choice survey ranked the Senator John Heinz History Center in

The art world has greatly benefited from the instinctive practice of pulling out our phones and posting our whereabouts on our Instagram stories

Two small exhibitions, one at the Met Cloisters, the other at the Wallach Art Gallery, bring the personal and political dynamics of devotional art to the fore.

President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.

A winter wander through the Bennington Museum, the Clark Art Institute, and the Williams College Museum of Art, all on the cusp of change.

From Chaplin's World in Switzerland to Popeye Village in Malta, these spots celebrate much-loved films and filmmakers

Questions over their value for research conflict with the ethics of possessing the dead, especially when presenting human remains in the setting of a museum.

I'm helping with a project that will see ~3k small museums submitting their collections data to a central data lake. It can be assumed that most museums struggle with technology and have little / no resource in-house. The data itself varies from an xls / CSV file to a database dump, to all flavours of thing in-between. File size: almost nothing all the way up to maybe 100mb. The files will change regularly, so the…