Curators and archivists on the items they’ve acquired from our pandemic year.

The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of charge. As part of a major revamp of its online presence, the world's most-visited museum has created a new database of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more than three-quarters already labelled with information and pictures.

Visiting a museum? This guide will help you identify any Roman Emperor bust or sculpture in front of you by simply looking at his beard!

Stream these free programs and more this January through the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

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

Yorkshire museum calls on collections around the world to display their best behinds as visitor numbers fall during the coronavirus pandemic

President Erdogan reopens Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to Muslim worship, after a court ruling.

The novelist wrote much of her hugely influential work when she lived in Bath about 200 years ago.

Released jointly, two studies by UNESCO and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) also say that nearly 90% of the world’s 95,000 museums have temporarily closed during the pandemic.

The London institution's online offerings include 280,000 newly added Creative Commons images

The Humboldt Forum, a new exhibition venue in Berlin, has raised questions about museum restitution and the importance of researching objects' provenance.

Museum social media managers share some of their best tips for other museums to improve their social media presence.

If you’re feeling hungry for art while you’re stranded at home, here are our 12 selections out of 2,500 world-class museums and galleries that are now offering virtual tours and online collections.

In 2009, Hobby Lobby president Steve Green began acquiring a collection of 16 Dead Sea Scrolls for his Museum of the Bible, a sprawling institution in Washington, D.C. that seeks to provide “an immersive and personalized experience with the Bible, and its ongoing impact on the world around us.”

A round-up of museums and archives that have released high resolution images into the public domain

Posture specialist Mark Josefsberg coined the term the "Museum Walk" to describe the unhealthy way in which we move in museums, along with a guide on posture improvements that can help you avoid it.

The peculiarities of pregnancy in art, from corsets to belly pads and hidden bumps.

Ahead of its opening, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is highlighting one major aspect of its holdings: costume design.

A new exhibition at the British Museum, reveals how a colonial art movement’s impact is still felt today, writes Sophia Smith-Galer.

Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history. And as he reveals to GQ’s Michael Finkel, how Breitwieser managed to do all this is every bit as surprising as why.