Since 1995, the Delta Flight Museum has invited visitors to experience the history of aviation through interactive exhibits and experiences. It's gotten a makeover.

Small towns in America create a sense of community, belonging and timelessness that big cities often lack. HGTV recently highlighted one in Georgia: Cartersville.

In honor of Valentine's Day, we stop in at the new Photo Booth Museum in San Francisco to find out how people are using the booths to celebrate their love.

The public broadcaster says it is closing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

The Afghanistan Memory Home Museum shares details and belongings from those who've died in conflict. It shut its doors when the Taliban took power, buried much of its collection — but has now reemerged.

The Little Richard Neighborhood Resource Center closed indefinitely without fanfare or public notice recently.

The Rosetta Stone, the Kohinoor diamond, sculptures from Greece's Parthenon known as the Elgin Marbles are all dazzling objects that bear the history of early civilizations.

But these objects were also taken by colonizers, and still remain on display in museum galleries far from their homes.

Over the past several years museums around the world have been reckoning with the looted treasures they have kept and benefited from.

Now one small museum in Nashville, Tennessee is returning ancient objects excavated in Mexico.

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The new museum is not authorized by the artist — who has explicitly denounced any use of his art for profit.

Two Cuthbert residents want to restore the childhood home of a legendary figure in jazz.

A new report says the Carlos Museum in Atlanta may have acquired hundreds of pieces of ancient art with links to the illicit antiquities trade.

A $120 million International African American Museum opened this week in Charleston, S,C. The galleries allow visitors to step back in history at Gadsden’s Wharf, where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in America, the genesis of generations of health disparities.

Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoning approved the museum’s amendment that could allow special events in the county’s historic residential districts. 

When the Taliban returned to power, cultural heritage advocates worried history might repeat itself and the group would destroy objects it found offensive. The museum is open now but has few visitors.

Members of Massachusetts's Wampanoag community say the people running the Patuxet living history site have done little to ingratiate themselves with tribes.

Motown-era buildings near the museum have been transformed into Hitsville NEXT, which will be home to camps, workshops, master classes and community events.