Explosion rocks Dutch museum before gold masterpieces stolen
Thieves responsible for the Drents Museum heist left with a gold Coțofenești helmet and three Dacian royal bracelets, the museum said.
Museums
Jay Leno's look inside one of the top car collection museums in the U.S.
The Petersen Automotive Museum hosts a collection of more than 400 classics, including Hollywood legend Steve McQueen's 1956 Jaguar, now worth more than $30 million.
Historic car collection turned into museum
J.B. Nethercutt used the fortune he amassed helping his aunt, Merle Norman, start her successful cosmetics company to buy the types of cars he dreamed about owning as a kid. The massive collection, which had to housed in a five-story building plus another storage facility across the street, is now a museum in Los Angeles. Carter Evans has the story.
Ancient jar smashed by "curious" 4-year-old is back on display
An Israeli museum has put a rare Bronze-Era jar that a 4-year-old accidentally smashed back on display.
"Curious" 4-year-old accidentally breaks a 3,500-year-old jar
Until mid-August, the jar was on display at the entrance to the Hecht Museum along with several similar artifacts.
Holocaust survivor, teen find friendship at museum
Steve Hartman goes "On the Road" to Stokie, Illinois, for a story about finding friends and sharing history across generations.
Heritage Museum of Asian Art in Bridgeport features pieces dating back thousands of years
For Dee Lou, working at the Heritage Museum of Asian Art is a dream job.
British Museum faces probe over handling of sacred artifacts
For more than 150 years, the British Museum has kept 11 sacred Ethiopian tabots, or replicas of the Ark of the Covenant, quietly to itself.
History of women's rights shown through shoes in Dallas exhibit
It's called "Walk this Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes."
Philadelphia Mütter Museum receives 2 preserved fetuses in package: police
Philadelphia police launched an investigation after they said a package containing two preserved fetuses was delivered to the Mütter Museum Tuesday morning.
Discovery of buried coins in Wales turns out to be Roman treasure
Two men using metal detectors found thousands of coins that were determined to be a Roman treasure.
The British Museum fires employee for allegedly stealing ancient treasures
Items including gold jewelry and semi-precious stones and glass from the 15th century BC to the 19th century AD were "missing, stolen or damaged," the museum said.
Inside the effort to return stolen cultural artifacts to Cambodia
An American lawyer is working to return ancient treasures to Cambodia's temples and sacred sites.
Indigenous activists reclaim artifacts
Artifacts and objects from indigenous tribes have spent years in museums and collections. Now, activists are working to bring the objects — which include remains and funerary pieces — back where they belong. Michelle Miller has more.
5 convicted over museum jewel heist that shocked Germany
The men were sentenced to prison for the brazen robbery of almost $130 million worth of jewels from Dresden's 300-year-old Green Vault museum.
Antiquities plucked from storeroom on Roman Forum display
Remnants of ancient Roman life include rain gutter decoration depicting mythological figures and colored dice, among other items.
Piet Mondrian painting was hanging upside down for 77 years, curator says
The error could have been made because "the painting doesn't have a signature," according to the curator.
Jackie Robinson Museum opens in New York after 14 years of planning
Robinson, who died in 1972, had an impact beyond baseball, galvanizing a significant slice of American public opinion and boosting the civil rights movement.
Mona Lisa smeared with cake in apparent climate protest
Visitors posted that a man disguised himself as an elderly lady in a wheelchair, then stood up and smeared cream cake over the painting, which is protected behind bulletproof glass.
Teen business owner surprised with trip
Though Joseph Smith is only 15, he has his own business helping other kids experience things they might not otherwise get to see, like museums. After a rough pandemic, his mom surprised him with his own new experience – a trip.
"Extinct" wildflower rediscovered after 36 years
"We walked into [the forest] thinking it was going to break our heart," a scientist said, "and instead we ended up falling in love."
Where museum guards pick the art
At the Baltimore Museum of Art, a new show, "Guarding the Art," was organized not by the museum's curators, but by its security staff – people who spend more time with the art on the walls than anyone else, but are rarely asked for their opinions.
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Supreme Court rejects bid to restrict treatments for trans inmates
Judge curbs DHS efforts to conduct sweeps for possible noncitizen voters
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U.S. ordering some government staff to depart Saudi Arabia
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Armed federal agents knock on doors looking for noncitizen voters
