On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno ...

Kris Wilton, deputy director, audience and engagement, at the RISD Museum speaks to the Globe on how an art museum can compete for attention in an internet-obsessed world.

Ben Flatman visits the V&A's new public store in east London, where the backstage world of conservation, curation and storage ...

At Harvard, an art collective documents the strange beauty of “castaway” garbage and its place in the landscape.

After almost a decade of hands-on workshops and ongoing research, educators share the power of digital storytelling as an ...

Books are a dying technology… a dead technology. My liking books and libraries probably has to do with preserving something ...

Most museum-goers stroll through halls of carefully lit paintings, meticulously cleaned sculptures and sophisticatedly written labels without ... of images of the objects in the museum’s possession.

What is a museum, really? A building that houses objects? A temple of knowledge ... The obscureness was echoed in the tone of the labels, too: verbose, and in hard-to-read tiny font.

The museum is hosting a few events stemming from the project, including a label-making workshop Thursday evening at the Unalaska Public Library. Members of the public are encouraged to bring personal ...

However, upon closer inspection and a glance at the label, you may notice that the clock ... Right: SOAS Gallery Collection, currently on display at the British Museum. Several factors influence an ...

Allison Martino at Indiana’s Eskenazi Museum of Art invited Gundlach to closely study ... “We each had three to four object labels. These were done independently,” Vree recalled. “I was drawn to the ...

The museum does plan to rotate the pieces that are on view as ... light-transmitting concrete blocks embedded with fiber optics. With so much to display, object labels are reduced, in most cases, ...