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.

Japan’s culture of cute has embraced poo, which gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Visitors can play a poo-themed video game and pose on a variety of WCs. All the twisty ice-cream and cupcake shapes on display are artificial, and come in a variety of colours and sizes

Bestiary manuscripts of the Middle Ages reflect the beliefs and superstitions of the culture that created them.

The Emily Dickinson Museum, located in Amherst, MA, has received a $22 million gift as part of a larger bequest to Amherst College from the late alumnus, William McC. Vickery. "The transformative...

You can now find famous art collections, from museums and civic institutions, in living color on the web. Researcher Tara Calishain details what is happening with some of these and looks forward to more art coming to computer screens, at times enhanced so you see more than you would if you were viewing them inside the museum.

A sitar that once belonged to George Harrison was broken at the V&A – and this was far from the first time a gallery has had to make an awkward apology

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange says a new digital Reggae Film Archive will be established at the National Library of Jamaica in an effort to preserve Jamaica's cultural heritage and reggae history on film.

Early last September, a devastating inferno blazed through Brazil’s National Museum, destroying the 200-year-old building and reducing the majority of its more than 20-million artifact collection to ashes.

How did the Met not realize its prized 2017 acquisition was a looted object? "It was the perfect storm," explains one cultural heritage law expert who consulted on the case.

The eagerly anticipated American Civil War Museum has set a grand opening date of Saturday, May 4.

Hundreds of Arab Christians call for the removal of a crucified Ronald McDonald museum exhibit in Haifa city.

Think of the worst thing you can possibly imagine that one human being might do to another and know that what really took place was a hundred times worse… By Matt Haughey.

Fluffy felines may have ruled the internet for years, but they have influenced the art world for centuries. Amsterdam’s KattenKabinet exclusively showcases the art inspired by cats.

In Chichibu, Japan, there's an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It's called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces.