In recent years, the public has increasingly scrutinized museum collections that disproportionately represent dead white male artists—a process that was accelerated radically in 2020 after a ...

A new online resource combines data from 45 different natural history collections to provide easy-to-use information on America’s threatened freshwater mussels Jack Tamisiea The National Museum of ...

Travelers across the U.S. will be able to see portions of a unique collection after the museum where they had been exhibited was forced to close. The Delbridge Museum of Natural History at the Great ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are part of ...

The museum is also preparing to reopen its redesigned sculpture garden, featuring new works from eight artists, this fall ...

Hughen/Starkweather, “Re:depiction” at the Asian Art Museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SAN FRANCISCO — “The rhino looks like it has a terrible skin disease,” said Jay Xu, director of ...

Museum curators oversee museum collections by managing the acquisition, preservation and display of museum artifacts. They may conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of ...

Being stuck inside is not the problem. The problem is never leaving our house. We’d love being quarantined inside one of the world’s greatest museums. But while we don’t expect to be jet setting ...

As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, non-essential businesses have shuttered and most people are forced to self-isolate at home. But as many of our minds are focused on how to fight the ...

The Collection Committee is charged with reviewing and approving acquisitions and deaccessions to the museum’s collection. These decisions shape the collection and lay the groundwork for future growth ...