The museum announced in 2023 that 1,500 items were missing. More than 600 have since been found, and officials are now hoping ...

The British Museum is stepping up the search for hundreds of antiquities, stolen in 2023, by hiring a dedicated treasure ...

Archaeologists discovered artifacts for sale in a thrift shop. They decided to create a college course on what to do about ...

The goal of the museum is not to expand its collection but to gradually empty itself as the missing objects are eventually recovered. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

From 31 May, one of the world’s largest art and design museums is offering the public not just a rare peek behind the curtain, but a chance for visitors to poke about, see up close — and touch — ...

To raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural heritage artifacts, from archaeological finds to artworks to musical instruments, UNESCO has launched the world’s first-ever Virtual Museum of ...

Last year, the Thai government sent a letter to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco requesting the return of four ancient bronze statues depicting Buddhist spiritual figures — buddhas and ...

For eight years, the Maidan Museum in Kyiv has been exhibiting objects that tell personal stories of war and revolution. In the midst of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the museum is continuing to add ...

LONDON (AP) — A museum is like an iceberg. Most of it is out of sight. Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage. But not at the new V&A ...

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Curators at the Maidan Museum in Kyiv are sifting through the rubble for items that “tell the story of ordinary people’s lives, of their deaths.” The Maidan Museum preserves personal items whose ...