Inexplicable noises, spectral sightings, sudden drops in temperature – something strange is going on at the British Museum. As the clamour over colonial restitution grows, Killian Fox investigates the collection’s restless objects

The Turda Salt Mine is now a veritable history museum of salt mining. The excellent state of preservation of mining and machinery used to transport salt, together with the cautious work carried out for prepararing the mine to become a tourist attraction, have made history and legend meet harmoniously here.

If museums face an uncertain future, you wouldn't know it from “Henri Matisse: The Cutouts,” which recently drew 664,000 to the Museum of Modern Art. The show was so thronged that MoMA kept its doors open round-the-clock on the closing weekend last month.

On March 18, 1990, robbers stole $500 million in art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Author Stephen Kurkjian explains why anyone would bother to steal work so priceless it couldn't be sold.

Driving along a nondescript section of Highway 115 a few miles south of Colorado Springs, it's hard not to swerve at the sight of a gigantic Hercules beetle, its horns as tall as a house, standing beside a sign for the May Natural History Museum. But this monstrous beetle isn’t advertising some two-bit roadside attraction...

Architecture is an art form that often involves inordinately large amounts of other people’s enthusiasm, time, and money. If any one of these resources begins to run out, they all do; the creation of architecture is a balancing act that contends not only with physical forces like stress, resilience, and gravity, but also with psychic forces like confidence, inspiration, and, often enough, sheer persistence. By Ingrid D. Rowland.

We sit down with @AfAmHistFail, an anonymous plantation docent who shares the teaching ups and racist downs of her job.

The mother of a little boy who accidentally smashed a historic jug at an Ipswich museum says the family is "thrilled" it has been fixed.

The museum visitor enters the room to find himself at the conductors stand with digital music notes and an orchestra of 13 speakers in front of him. Each speaker represents a different group of instruments. The visitor is given a conductors´ stick, and the concert may begin. On the repertoire are works of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. By browsing the electronic note-pad the visitor freely chooses which work he/she wishes to conduct, and by swinging the conductors stick decides upon the tempo.

Nearly 10 years ago, someone bashed in the window of the Judy Garland Museum and stole the world's most famous shoes.

Like the cathedrals of bygone eras, galleries are now the ultimate buildings of our times – and the way we use them mimics religious rituals, writes Jason Farago. Art critics wear many hats, but lately the most useful one has been a safety helmet. Across the United States, arts institutions are in the middle of a building boom, and globally, outside of Europe’s austerity-choked capitals, the strongholds of art are rising as well.

The newly-released footage was taken almost exactly 24 hours before the heist and shows a security guard letting in an unauthorized visitor

From toasters to opium, learn about the history of strangely specific and obscure topics. You're sure to learn something new from these 6 online museums.

Don't be fooled by museums' strong attendance numbers, says professor Michael Lewis. He argues today's art world is a Potemkin village, whose gleaming facades mask an indifference for the art itself.

The museum closes when dusk falls, and when the darkness strikes, the 'Night Light' fills the hushed spaces. It wanders along vulnerable paintings and awakens the mysterious girl who knows her place in the painting the Night Watch, by the Dutch painter Rembrandt When she steps into the nocturnal world of the museum, the Night Light leads her through the spaces, and she opens doors behind other iconic Dutch masterpieces.

Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works... (May 16, 2014)

5 places to learn about lighthouses while taking in their beauty.

Lord Montagu, who established the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, England, dies aged 88.

The visitor center at the Auschwitz concentration camp is being criticized by visitors who were shocked to see showers set up outside of the Polish site over the weekend. For some, the cooling stations offered a dark reminder of the camp's horrifying past. As the area suffered from severe heat, the site's managers set up misting showers to keep visitors cool as temperatures soared well into the 90s.

Seul Choix includes a two-story brick keeper's house, a fog signal building, an assistant keeper's house, two oil houses, and other buildings.