Two Qing Dynasty porcelain artifacts were damaged at the British Museum after a blue-and-white bowl fell from a display shelf and struck another object below.

The cremated remains of the rapper, still omnipresent three decades after his death, now lie in a Lumberton grave.

The kahu kiwi, given to a British doctor in 1900, was "crying to come home", Māori campaigners say.

In an interview with Hyperallergic, Satch Hoyt shared his process of "un-muting" African musical objects long relegated to storage.

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

The Coast and Interior Salish companions were carefully bred for thousands of years, then they went extinct — the only known pelt is at MOA until next August

A true story of colonial loot and restless objects, and an absorbingly creepy travelogue through the shadowy corridors, echoing tunnels and musty basements of our most famous repository of cultural t...

“Palestinians are in danger of losing their sense of belonging and of continuity with the past altogether.”

Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum

In this episode, Matt talks to Noah Angell about his book Ghosts of the British Museum. How does the museum’s reputation of being the gold standard of museum collections square with its histo…

A true story of colonial loot and restless objects, and an absorbingly creepy travelogue through the shadowy corridors, echoing tunnels and musty basements of our most famous repository of cultural t...

In this episode, Matt talks to Noah Angell about his book Ghosts of the British Museum. How does the museum’s reputation of being the gold standard of museum collections square with its histo…

Most of 50-piece Spanish gold collection worth at least €1.7m stolen in latest high-profile European raid Thieves have stolen the Treasure of Villena – one of the greatest bronze age gold collections – in the latest high-profile heist of a European museum, officials said. The early morning raid on the 50-plus mainly gold objects in the Spanish town of Villena on Thursday lasted just minutes. Continue reading...