In recent years, the public has increasingly scrutinized museum collections that disproportionately represent dead white male artists—a process that was accelerated radically in 2020 after a ...

A new online resource combines data from 45 different natural history collections to provide easy-to-use information on America’s threatened freshwater mussels Jack Tamisiea The National Museum of ...

Travelers across the U.S. will be able to see portions of a unique collection after the museum where they had been exhibited was forced to close. The Delbridge Museum of Natural History at the Great ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are part of ...

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 ...

Hughen/Starkweather, “Re:depiction” at the Asian Art Museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SAN FRANCISCO — “The rhino looks like it has a terrible skin disease,” said Jay Xu, director of ...

In recent years, museums across the United States have worked to diversify their collections, sometimes even selling work by white male artists to buy art by women and artists of color. But according ...

Pierre Bonnard, “Nu dans le bain” (1936), oil on canvas, from the collection of the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, an image now available as Open Access (CC0 Paris Musées / Musée d’art ...

Museum curators oversee museum collections by managing the acquisition, preservation and display of museum artifacts. They may conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of ...

The Collection Committee is charged with reviewing and approving acquisitions and deaccessions to the museum’s collection. These decisions shape the collection and lay the groundwork for future growth ...