President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting “improper ideology” at the Smithsonian Institution’s ...

In 2016, former President Barack Obama opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Nicolas Chow, chairman of Sotheby's Asia and worldwide head of Asian art, writes in his preface for Liu's collection of ...

After Earhart’s disappearance on July 2, 1937— during her round-the-world flight attempt—her mother and sister safeguarded ...

Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been ...

Ahead of its reopening, here are five highlights from the Frick Collection, including the relocated Boucher Room and its ...

Rare gold coins stolen from a French museum were recovered in a Moscow antique market after years missing in Russia.

The collection, which dates to the first century C.E., includes items ranging from elaborately decorated horse harnesses to ornate cauldrons ...

Bradley Wade Bishop, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) Ice cores in freezers, dinosaurs on display, fish in jars, birds in boxes, human remains and ancient artifacts from long gone ...

A new virtual collection of historic artifacts is shedding light on the early life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her father, Ben Ross. Archaeologists for the Maryland Department of ...

The Columbian Exposition’s Fine Arts Building, now the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, is filled with artifacts from ... Writing scrawled on an interior area of the Manhattan Round ...

landscaping and tourist-friendly additions as well as work to renovate the interior of the Hallett, which has deteriorated to the point the public will likely not be allowed to see its insides ...