When I first attended school to learn about material culture (physical objects made or modified by humans), my professor — a fantastic combination of Elmer Fudd and Vizzini from “The Princess Bride” — ...

They are ceremonial and everyday objects from Pacific islands that few Americans have visited, if they have even heard of them. Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia: Islands spread across ...

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 ...

It’s not your usual art exhibition. It’s kinda strange, kinda mysterious, definitely fascinating. The 80 items currently on display at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati pull back the curtain on two ...

Way back before the advent of HMOs and over-the-counter cure-alls, the native peoples of Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory typically sought the services of a shaman when they needed to ...

The Netherlands’ national museum has a new object on display that merges art with Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art. The Rijksmuseum ...

When Tim Reeve, deputy director and COO of Victoria and Albert Museum in London, pledged that the V&A East Storehouse, opening to the public on Saturday, May 31, will offer “a completely new cultural ...

Thousands of African objects "given, stolen and forcefully taken" at the height of the British Empire have gone on display at a museum and curators admit they have almost no record of where they came ...

The Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney is home to Australia's largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts. Nick-D via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 As curators around the ...

After 10 years of planning and construction, the wait is nearly over. Home to 270 years of collected items, 5,000 years-old art pieces, a 12,000 square feet education center, 32 galleries, and a third ...

LONDON (AP) — A museum is like an iceberg. Most of it is out of sight. Movie Review: Rose Byrne goes deep and dark as an overburdened mom in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Common’s journey from Bulls ...