With art institutions closed around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, house-bound museum staffers are finding all sorts ...

The goal of the museum is not to expand its collection but to gradually empty itself as the missing objects are eventually recovered. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

From 31 May, one of the world’s largest art and design museums is offering the public not just a rare peek behind the curtain, but a chance for visitors to poke about, see up close — and touch — ...

More than two years after the British Museum announced that 1,500 of its Greek and Roman artifacts were stolen, missing or ...

The British Museum is stepping up the search for hundreds of antiquities, stolen in 2023, by hiring a dedicated treasure ...

For eight years, the Maidan Museum in Kyiv has been exhibiting objects that tell personal stories of war and revolution. In the midst of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the museum is continuing to add ...

Last year, the Thai government sent a letter to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco requesting the return of four ancient bronze statues depicting Buddhist spiritual figures — buddhas and ...

LONDON (AP) — A museum is like an iceberg. Most of it is out of sight. Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage. But not at the new V&A ...