Historic museum specimens help us learn more about what a species once was like and what it could be like in the future. Erin Malsbury Scientists use a California condor specimen from 1835 — part of ...

Mattel and the Museum of Modern Art have entered a sweeping five-year global partnership—and their first collaborative collection dropped earlier this month. The debut lineup includes seven ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Scroll to continue On the day Mary Sara died of tuberculosis in a Seattle ...

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 ...

Grave History: The Penn Museum has apologized for its "unethical possession" of a collection of human skulls belonging to Black Americans and slaves. Following years of protests by students and ...

It doesn’t get top billing at the North Museum of Nature and Science in Lancaster. But venture into the basement and behold a world-class bird collection whose origins are full of intrigue and ...

The economic benefit of digitising an entire museum collection has been quantified for the first time. Research has found that digitising the Museum's 80 million objects would contribute to ...

A museum has received a prestigious award from Arts Council England for one its oldest collections. Lyme Regis Museum, which opened in 1923, has been given designated status for its Jurassic coast ...