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23,000 bronzes, 14 years, 60 volumes: how China is mapping lost heritage held abroad

In the quiet of a Peking University research room, shelves groan under the weight of 60 thick volumes. Stacked, they stand taller than an average human. Inside their pages lie the...

Museum heists put portable collections under fresh scrutiny

Recent European thefts are giving brokers a reason to look beyond headline collection values and test where the real vulnerabilities sit

Gemmeus Historical Jewellery creates collections for British Museum Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

The collections take inspiration from historic pieces held by the British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kunsthistorisches Museum

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25 Years Later, 9/11’s Artifacts Still Call for a Different Level of Curatorial Care

Aaron Noble of the New York State Museum described a post-attack scene in which recovery crews and the institution's staff developed a cooperative relationship, with workers settin...

Behind Greece’s antiquities, stories of theft and survival

The National Archaeological Museum is unveiling the hidden histories behind some of its most celebrated antiquities, as part of European Heritage Days 2026, from Friday through Sun...

From hotel suites to virtual reality, museums turn to licensing deals as costs rise

Natural History Museum and British Museum among cultural institutions leveraging collections and exhibitionsThey are often free to visit but museums are bolstering their finances b...

Eight quick tips for requesting materials from natural history collections

by Giovanna Yumi Scorsim Omura, Denise Furr, Denis Jacob Machado

Museum to return remains of 39 people taken during colonial rule in India

The Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the world's leading institutions for anthropology, ethnology and archaeology, holds over 6,000 artifacts from the Naga community in India.

Flensburg: Museumsberg zeigt vergessene Kunstsammlung aus Bonner Republik

Der Flensburger Museumsberg präsentiert eine Sammlung, die so noch nie gezeigt wurde. Zu sehen: Bilder aus der Landesvertretung Schleswig-Holstein der Bonner Republik – und manchma...

What Does a Museum Need? Inside the Exhibition Architecture of the Natural History Museum Oslo

Designing a museum interior means negotiating between the needs of the collection and those of the visitor: objects must be protected and carefully displayed, while spaces need to...

Inside the Natural History Museum’s room sealed off since WWII

A once-hidden room above the museum’s main entrance has reopened with its historic wooden cupboards and a new exhibition exploring humanity’s relationship with nature.Read more ›

Kimbell Art Museum acquires seventeenth-century sculpture by Stefano Maderno

The newest acquisition is a first for the Kimbell Art Museum. Samson and Two Philistines, a bronze sculpture by Italian artist by Stefano Maderno, is the first seventeenth-century...

The de Young’s New Egypt Show Draws From Two of the Past Century’s Biggest Discoveries

Most of the 130 objects on view in "Treasures of the Pharaohs" are on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, selected by former director Tarek al-Awadi before the show's earlier d...

Ancient gold treasures stolen from museum in "super-fast" raid

The treasure was discovered in 1963 by archaeologist Jose Maria Soler in a vessel sunk in a dried-out riverbed in Villena.

The FBI's online gallery of stolen art

The FBI National Stolen Art File lists more than 8,000 paintings, sculptures and other "culturally-significant property" that has found its way out of galleries, museums and privat...

Mystery Of The Mesoamerican Turquoise Mosaic Skull Decorated With Shining Secrets

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A year ago, the skull of a Mixtec ancestor was returned to Mexico from the Netherlands. It had been on display for sixty years at the Wereldmuseum i...

A ‘Treasury of Ice’ goes on show, revealing relics as Swiss glaciers rapidly melt

LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP) — A bow once used to fire arrows in an ancient hunt. A crunched tube of mayonnaise and a discarded wine bottle. An alpinist’s cracked helmet. A statuette...

Cracks in security? Qing dynasty ceramics damaged in British Museum display

Two Chinese ceramics at the British Museum have been damaged while on display and are being restored, sparking fresh debate over how museums should safely exhibit fragile cultural...

ExhVerse Offers a Virtual Art Gallery for Works Not Currently on Display

An artwork can belong to a public collection without being part of the current display. ExhVerse enables collection teams to build a virtual art gallery from existing digital i...

Besondere Ausstellung: Bucerius blättert in Hamburg jüdische Sammlungsgeschichte auf

Die Ausstellung zeigt nicht nur etliche große Kunstwerke der klassischen Moderne, sie erzählt auch die Geschichte 15 jüdischer Sammlerinnen und Sammler und ihre Schätze, die sich n...

Toledo museum partners with Ethiopia to unravel art collection’s past

The Toledo Museum of Art has begun a decades-long effort to research gaps in the ownership history of a collection of centuries-old Ethiopian art and determine which objects can re...

De moderne museumdief richt zich niet op schilderijen, maar op goud: ‘Die idioten denken: laten we het omsmelten’

MuseumFabriek heeft een identiteitscrisis, de baas erkent dat het een ‘allegaartje’ is

Vond je iets geks op straat, zoals een stoel met drie poten? Geef maar aan de MuseumFabriek, die zet hem zo in een vitrine.