From striking new builds to visionary renovations, these 7 museum openings are shaping the cultural landscape of 2025.

A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United ...

Daniel Weiss ’85, former president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses the distinctive joys and challenges ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Suitors in the 18th and 19th centuries often carved love tokens out of whatever material was at hand. According to the National Museum of Wales, a cow horn carved with intricate patterns in its ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

An executive order by Donald Trump prohibits all DEI programs at federal institutions. Some have already dismantled them.

WASHINGTON — Art lovers, rejoice! The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has just hit the refresh button on ...

Born in the years bracketing the Revelstoke meteorite’s fall, the two of us have spent our careers in the meteorite collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Natural ...

The winners will be celebrated in April at an event at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

Bao Li and Qing Bao are the first pandas to be sent from China to U.S. in 24 years. CNN’s David Culver reports from the ...