What is a museum, really? A building that houses objects? A temple of knowledge? A vault of the past? Or a theatre of the present? The answers are as complex as the institution’s foundational ...

Police have begun patrolling Nara Park to safeguard its sacred deer population after a video of a tourist kicking and slapping one of the animals went viral, sparking outrage in Japan and drawing ...

With the Government Museum in Chennai set to complete 175 years in April 2026, the Tamil Nadu government has announced various measures to improve it. A sum of ₹4 crore will be allocated to ...

Hankins, an aeronautics curator at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. “It’s easy to change out the electronics inside it—that let it accomplish different missions.” ...

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located in Washington, D.C. It was created at the start of the Civil War to further the research of military field surgery. Guilbert Gates The museum ...

Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor Washington boasts countless examples of iconic architecture, but the National Building Museum fittingly stands out from the rest. The gargantuan former Pension ...

The Swiss National Museum resides within a historic, castle-like building in the northern tip of Kreis 1. The museum surveys Swiss art, history and culture from as far back as 100,000 B.C. to ...

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The Asia Society Museum in New York presents groundbreaking exhibitions of pre-modern and modern, and contemporary art of Asia and Asian diasporas, taking new approaches to known masterpieces and ...

The "Gossip Girl" actress was found dead in her apartment in February. The new standalone "Star Wars" movie will begin filming in the fall. Filming will take place in Rome and Paris, Netflix ...

The National Army Museum could get bigger, as plans have been shown off for a new extension underneath its carpark and a new public garden to be created, as part of an agreement with a neighbouring ...

A Dacian gold bracelet dating back to the mid-1st century BC is now on display at the National History Museum of Romania, following its recent recovery by Romanian judicial authorities at the end ...