MUSEUMS

Mental_floss photographed some of the museum’s artifacts during its annual SNAPSHOT night—the one night a year cameras are allowed inside the museum—then talked to head curator David Favaloro about the work that went into creating each exhibit.

The prolific mystery writer took an active part in her husband’s archaeology digs.

The beloved bear lived to a ripe old age despite her fondness for sticky buns and honey.

Earlier this year, mental_floss visited The Field Museum to take a peek at the institution's research collections; here are a few things we saw behind the scenes.

Crime scene photos provide clues to what tenement life was like in the early 20th century.

Titian Ramsey Peale II went to his grave in 1885 believing that his life’s greatest work would never be published. It finally has been.

While we generally know a great deal about their most famous buildings, most people don’t know much about these 6 men behind the blueprints.

The museum wants your help preserving the suit Armstrong wore for the moon landing in 1969.

The Nasothek display at Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum is nothing to turn up your nose at.

Though he dabbled in murder, bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling, it was the crime of tax evasion that took Al Capone down. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t guns involved, including the one on display at The Mob Museum.

If you can’t check out these places in person, you can at least visit them virtually—no flights or road trips required.