The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L ...

The collections of the National Museum of the American Indian include thousands of objects and images acquired during expeditions conducted or sponsored by our predecessor institution, the Museum of ...

What does a photograph look like? Is it just a picture pasted on a wall, or is it something you can hold and move with? Maybe, according to Peter Bunnell, it’s all of the above. This is the question ...

Earlier this month, the university unveiled Lux, its new online platform that allows users to search across the 17 million objects in its massive holdings, which span the collections of the Yale ...

Natural history museums have joined forces to produce a global digital inventory of their prized collections, from pinned butterflies to dinosaur skulls. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer’s science reporting ...

Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing works from the Kingdom of Spain, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem Photo: ...