Under new repatriation rules, museums must gain consent from Native American tribes before displaying their cultural items. Some museums rushed to comply, but others, such as the Museum of Us and History Colorado, were prepared to meet the moment.

When the FBI Art Theft Program investigated one man’s collection, it began a project to return objects and remains to their rightful homes.

The oil on wood painting by Eramus Quelliness II was taken in a raid in 1979, though the thieves left behind much more valuable works

Noticing first one then many parrots, peacocks, owls and more birds in Old Master paintings taught me to truly see the world

"The Jewish Museum in Prague has launched an informative web site with online exhibits about the eclectic material discovered in genizas in a dozen synagogue buildings that have been researched in the country since the 1990s."

From 1920s manga to Captain Marvel to Calvin and Hobbes, there’s no telling what treasures you’ll uncover at this unique institution.

Go on a glorious 350-mile drive that embraces the entire history of popular music, from gospel to soul to jazz to country to rock.

Ernst de Witte realized that the onions in "Red Cabbages and Onions" are actually garlic

Patricia Marroquin Norby, the Met Museum’s curator of Native American Art, reflects on the lesser-discussed everyday challenges of repatriation work. "As connections with source communities grew, some colleagues shared their surprise at how repatriation attitudes regarding specific items can differ. Some tribes seek repatriation, while others favor a co-stewardship approach or prefer that works remain at the museum."

Here’s where to get your art fix this year.

What do the singer Madonna and Amiens in northern France have in common? Not a lot, says the city’s mayor, Brigitte Fouré, who admits the global star has probably never heard of the city until now. However, Fouré insists there is a “special link” between the two in the shape of an early 19th-century painting that once hung in the Amiens museum until it was lost without trace during the first world war.

The National Archaeological Museum’s Unseen Museum welcomes a 3rd-century AD funerary monument dedicated to a pet dog.

It's not off to the scrapyard quite yet for the historic aircraft that carried NASA's flying telescope. On Sept. 29, NASA and the German Space Agency (DLR) retired their joint Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft, a modified Boeing 747SP that lofted a 106-inch (2.7-meter) reflective telescope on overnight flights.

Virginia's rural Mathews County is poised to deed a small piece of the public courthouse green to a private group to protect a Confederate statue forever.

At the Noguchi Museum, the joys (and damp) of living below grade.

Zoom in on every page of this legendary illuminated manuscript.

“I’m excited to see everyone’s reaction to what I picked for the show,” said guard Ricardo Castro.

While some Ukrainians attempt to preserve cultural artifacts as the conflict rages, a team of multinational archivists is recording websites before they go offline or their messages are distorted.

The study of fossils and prehistoric species is exploitative of local communities, says international team

As Ukraine defends itself against invading Russian forces, the nation's museums find themselves in a dire situation.