Museum News

Some items in the collection are irreplaceable to science, as well as the country’s national memory.

When Brazilians look at the shell of their National Museum, some see a symbol of the hollowing out of their whole country and the near-abandonment of basic public services.

The items feared lost to a fire on Sunday include one of the world’s largest meteorites and the oldest human fossil from the region.

The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro housed a collection of more than 20 million items, including Egyptian mummies, dinosaur fossils and the oldest human fossil in the region.

Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.

Yes, it really was a thing. And yes, those fleas seemed to be trained. And very athletic.

Reporting from a company that counts visitors suggested there was a drop of more than 40 percent at the London museum. It was more like 10 percent.

A traveling Smithsonian exhibition, “Water/Ways,” will examine the political, economic and cultural roles water plays, at six museums in the state.

The donation, by Edward P. Bass, a Yale alumnus, will help the natural history museum add 50 percent more exhibition space and new classrooms.

Museum conservators are racing to figure out how to preserve modern artworks and historical objects that are disintegrating.

The Met, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim will celebrate Arab culture through art exhibitions, films and interviews.

Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.

The Italian government had issued an export license for the portrait last year, but now argues that it had not realized the subject was a Borghese prince.

Chase F. Robinson, the president of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will assume his post at the Smithsonian on Dec. 10.

The bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination are also part of a collection that may be auctioned to erase a debt of more than $9 million.

At the Hammer, one of the strongest biennials; at the Fowler, the most beautiful sculpture show in recent memory; and at LACMA, Iranian superheroes.

Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.

The government of Chile said it would ask for the return of the statue, which was taken by British sailors in 1868, on behalf of the island’s indigenous people.

No, you don’t have to have a degree to appreciate and love art.

At the inaugural Front Triennial, powerful experiences come at a former station on the Underground Railroad and in drawings of gay life in Akron.