MUSEUMS

A Pair of New Museums Will Honor Fashion Icon Yves Saint Laurent

We're already donning our smoking jackets.

13 Fantastic Museums You Can Visit for Free on Saturday

Get excited for Museum Day Live!

Berlin Is Now Home to the World's Largest Street Art Museum

The Museum for Urban Contemporary Art has an ever-changing mural-covered façade and a collection filled with works by international and local artists alike.

Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0

Get an Early Peek at Winter With This Touring Snowman Sculpture

Just in case you need to snap out of your pumpkin spice spell.

ANDREANNA MOYA PHOTOGRAPHY, Flickr // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Coming to London Next Year: Frida Kahlo's Fashionable Clothes

In addition to her role as an artist and activist, Kahlo was a style icon. An upcoming exhibit at a London museum will celebrate her unique fashions.

© Zachary James Johnston, The Field Museum

SUE the T. Rex Is Getting a Makeover

As The Field Museum welcomes a new titanosaur, SUE’s getting a new look and new digs.

Courtesy of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Baltimore, MD

Frances Glessner Lee's Crime Dioramas Are Getting Their Own Smithsonian Exhibition

The "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" were used to train investigators to solve murders, suicides, and other mysterious cases.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to Launch Mobile Interactive Art Museum

“VMFA on the Road" is slated to hit the highway in fall 2018.

Japanese Artist Yayoi Kusama to Launch Her Own Museum in Tokyo

The renowned artist kept the news under wraps to surprise her fans.

5 Times Kids Corrected Museums

Museums are bastions of knowledge, but they're occasionally no match for eagle-eyed kids. Here are five times that kids corrected their mistakes.

The Annette Gero Collection, Photo by Tim Connolly, Shoot Studios

A New Museum Exhibition Showcases Quilts Made by Men During War

"War and Pieced" is billed as the first U.S. exhibition highlighting quilts made by men during times of war.

Self-Portrait in Semi-Abstract Style by Sylvia Plath, Ink and gouache on paper, c. 1946-1952, Estate of Robert Hittel, ©Estate of Sylvia Plath. Studio photograph of Sylvia Plath (with brown hair) by Warren Kay Vantine, Photograph: 1954, Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. ©Estate of Sylvia Plath

A New Smithsonian Exhibition Highlights Sylvia Plath's Visual Artwork

Plath had many identities—and one of them was as a former college studio arts major.

Pawel Sawicki, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

Traveling Auschwitz Museum Exhibition Heads to North America

The exhibition will include more than 1150 artifacts.

A Chinese Museum Is Offering Cash to Whoever Can Decipher These 3000-Year-Old Inscriptions

The National Museum of Chinese Writing will pay about $15,000 for each unknown character translated, and $7500 for a disputed character’s definitive meaning.

12 Ways Art Museums Protect Their Masterpieces

It takes a lot of innovation to preserve the past. Here is just a taste of the many ways art museums around the globe protect their priceless treasures.

London's Natural History Museum Has a New Star Attraction: An Amazing Blue Whale Skeleton

The skeleton is suspended from the main entrance hall's ceilings, providing visitors with a 360-degree view of the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth.