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News Articles: museums

The San Jose Museum of Art, seen here in 2007, is one of hundreds of museums participating in Saturday's free admission Museum Day event.

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  • Arts & Life

It's Museum Day. Here's how to get free tickets and have some fun

The annual Museum Day has arrived. Visitors can get free admission to one of the hundreds of participating institutions in the U.S. All it takes is an email address and the desire to have some fun.

September 17, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
The Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall is one of four sites selected as possible locations for two new museums.

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  • Arts & Life

The Smithsonian selects four possible sites for new museums for women and Latinos

The National Women's History Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino were authorized by Congress in 2020.

June 22, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
The Menorah memorial is seen outside of Kharkiv at the Drobitsky Yar Holocaust memorial, a location that saw a mass killing of Jewish people by Nazis during WWII. UNESCO included the memorial in its list of sites that have sustained damaged since Russia invaded Ukraine.

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  • World

UNESCO says 53 cultural sites in Ukraine have been damaged since the Russian invasion

The damaged sites include churches, historic buildings, museums and monuments. A UNESCO spokesperson said they fear more sites will be added to the list, as the group works to verify the destruction.

April 02, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis painted a banner on its building the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

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  • Arts & Life

U.S. Russian cultural organizations fear boycotts over the war

Some U.S.-based institutions have publicly denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine to show they don't represent the Russian government.

March 01, 2022
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
A Froggyland diorama shows a teacher trying to control a class in which students are hitting each other with rulers, arriving late to class and balancing pencils on their noses. Each  diorama displays anthropomorphized frogs in human scenes of the early 20th century.

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  • World

Welcome To Froggyland, The Croatian Taxidermy Museum That May Soon Come To The U.S.

The museum features the work of a Hungarian taxidermist who created anthropomorphized exhibits. It had 50,000 visitors in 2019, but numbers fell during the pandemic and the owner now plans to sell.

June 10, 2021
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  • Rob Schmitz
A rendering of new signage designed for the National Gallery of Art.

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  • Fine Art

National Gallery Of Art Rebrands To Emphasize The 'National' In Its Name

The federally funded museum has been accused of "institutional misconduct" including racism and sexual harassment. A petition claimed some employees call it "the last plantation on the National Mall."

May 13, 2021
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  • Elizabeth Blair
The African American Art Museum in Los Angeles is a "micro museum" tucked away on the third floor of a Macy's in the city's Crenshaw district. The museum has been closed since March 2020.

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  • Arts & Life

'Once A Museum Closes, It's Closed Forever': The Struggle To Keep Art Alive Right Now

For many small museums across the country, it's been over a year since their doors have been open to visitors, putting them in the same life-or-death situation as much of the rest of the arts sector.

March 29, 2021
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  • Nina Kravinsky
Spotted Trunkfish collected in the US Virgin Islands in 1871.

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  • Science

Scientific Specimens Are Going Online, But Much Remains Hidden In Storage

From fish in jars to rare seeds and microbes, hundreds of millions of biological specimens are stored around the U.S., and caretakers are trying to make them accessible for future research.

March 29, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
An aerial view of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with the Smithsonian Institution Building ("The Castle") in the foreground and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in the background.

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  • Arts & Life

Congress Approves 2 New Museums Honoring American Latinos, Women's History

The Smithsonian cannot build a new museum without federal legislation but both museums have bipartisan support. The law requires costs be covered by a 50/50 split between public and private dollars.

December 22, 2020
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  • Elizabeth Blair
The Annenberg Space for Photography closed permanently in June. In a survey of museum directors, 33% said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently or that they didn't know if their institutions would survive.

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  • Arts & Life

One-Third Of U.S. Museums May Not Survive The Year, Survey Finds

In a survey of more than 750 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently by next fall or that they didn't know if their institutions would survive.

July 22, 2020
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  • Neda Ulaby
The Museum of the Bible is located near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The entrance is flanked by large bronze doors depicting the first lines of the Book of Genesis.

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  • World

After 'Missteps' And Controversies, Museum Of The Bible Works To Clean Up Its Act

The museum has tightened its acquisition policies and is working to return potentially looted objects. Early acquisitions reflected a lack of expertise and lack of policy, its chief curator tells NPR.

June 23, 2020
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  • Jane Arraf
Students will take courses on global modern art through the program that go beyond artists like Monet and Picasso.

Atlanta HBCUs Train Next Generation Of African American Art Curators

If you go into an art museum in North America, chances are the staff, the curators and the directors are going to be white. In 2015, an Andrew W. Mellon...

December 02, 2019
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  • Rickey Bevington and
  • Sophia Saliby
Telfair Museum's Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters opens new exhibits on enslaved people's lives on the property Nov. 17.

Savannah's Telfair Museum Examines Stories Of Inequality Through Refurbished Slave Quarters

Telfair Museums' Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters plans to reveal the newly-refurbished slave quarters at the Regency-era mansion to the public on...

November 16, 2018
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  • Elena Rivera ,
  • Cindy Hill ,
  • and 1 more
Members of the North Carolina Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, shown at the Tottle House lunch counter in Atlanta in 1960, sparked sit-ins across the South.

How Museums Today Expose Forgotten Truths About American History

African-American history goes far beyond Black History Month in February. Today we talked about the presentation of history and how it’s changing and...

June 19, 2018
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By:
  • La'Raven Taylor and
  • Virginia Prescott

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