A new museum exhibit in Santa Cruz looks back at an event 140 years ago when three Hawaiian princes introduced surfing to ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a legendary medieval artwork depicting the 1066 Norman Conquest, is set to be displayed in the U.K. for ...

Escape from the British Museum, a three-episode video series made by two vloggers, tells the story of a rare Chinese jade teapot with a pattern of curling branches, escaping from the British Museum ...

The Museum of the American Revolution recently announced its History Explorers Audio Tour, an exciting new way for kids to explore the museum.

Current and former employees have expressed shock that the museum hosted the event—which marks a day associated with the mass displacement of Palestinians—during one of the most violent weeks ...

The American flag is the symbol of our nation, and the museum has been the home to the original Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the National Anthem, since it opened in 1964. On the ...

The British Museum has received a donation of Chinese treasures worth more than $1 billion from the Sir Percival David Foundation.

Claudia Winkleman ‘deeply honoured’ to join British Museum’s board of trustees Historian Tom Holland and BBC Radio 4’s Martha Kearney have also become trustees.

A remarkable new exhibition at the British Museum, opening in May, will celebrate the life, work, and legacy of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of Japan’s most popular and prolific artists.

In “Hew Locke, what have we here?”, visitors are asked to consider the legacy of empire and plunder in shaping museum collections.