Museums

On September 2, the National Museum of Brazil was struck by a devastating fire that gutted the 200-year-old building, destroying an estimated 18 million artifacts.

The flower was discovered alongside Civil War-era medals and documents. How exactly it ended up there remains a mystery.

3-D Printing can make museum specimens more accessible to the disabled.

A powerful project allows survivors to "answer" questions without being present. It’s like Siri if Siri were an actual human with a life story to tell.

Patek Philippe's new pop-up museum spotlights amazing watches that nobody can afford.

Following a lawsuit settlement between Léone Meyer and the University of Oklahoma, “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” is at the Musée d’Orsay.

With the Smithsonian’s pair undergoing conservation and others in storage, fans of the 1939 film will just have to wait to see Dorothy’s pumps.

The National Museum of American History launched a fundraising campaign to preserve the artifact from “The Wizard of Oz.”

A first peek at the new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, through the eyes of its architect.

A new exhibit at the International Center of Photography shows how nothing is as private as you think it is.

Generations in the making, the museum opens September 24 with the first black U.S. president cutting the ribbon.

A hundred years and $540 million in the making, the museum opens on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in September.

The Brussels Museums Council says museum attendance has been low since the city’s “lockdown” in November.

Moving the remarkable photography collection from Bradford to London is wrong, argues one of the world's leading art history experts, Professor Martin Kemp.

From New York to Los Angeles, superheroes to surrealism, here are 10 exhibits on display this fall.

Museums don’t know what to do with their very cool but very old, arsenic-laced dioramas.

Chicago lands a prize with the only U.S. showing of a major David Bowie exhibit.

Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, examines the seemingly endless fetish for this footwear.

The inclusion of a shirt worn by a Navy SEAL on the mission to kill bin Laden seems crass in a space for somber thought and prayer

The Aug. 1 event stems from the Museum's "successful kids overnight adventure"