As the only American museum devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design ...

This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums Jack Tamisiea A small fraction of the more than 50 million specimens housed in ...

Museums bring collections to life by telling their stories. Often, donors share personal memories of objects. Recollections of community members where the works were made and used add additional ...

A special ceremony held last week in Australia celebrated 17 sacred objects from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia being repatriated to the Arrernte, Warlpiri and ...

For the second time in four months, the Smart Museum of Art is featuring artworks from its permanent collection throughout its entire space. Following the success of the fall show Carved Cast and ...

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva has a collection of over 360 objects made by political prisoners and prisoners of war from over 60 countries. Many were given by detainees ...

Philipp Blom is a cultural historian, writer and journalist who lives in Vienna. He is the author of "To Have and To Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting" and, most recently, "A ...