New exhibition explores a time when hair wasn't simply for heads.

MUSEUMS
Yes, there was a real Madame Tussaud. (Marie Tussaud.)
The vending machine-sized installation features 15 itty-bitty "exhibitions" about bivalves, snails, octopuses, and more.
The room was hidden for hundreds of years before someone discovered a trap door hidden in a closet.
A brief history of the game-changing tool, created 50 years ago by the Fiskars Corporation.
From a famously misnamed oak tree to a virtual museum of dinosaur dung, Jacksonville is filled with quirky attractions.
As The Field Museum welcomes a new titanosaur, SUE’s getting a new look and new digs.
The "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" were used to train investigators to solve murders, suicides, and other mysterious cases.
Museums are bastions of knowledge, but they're occasionally no match for eagle-eyed kids. Here are five times that kids corrected their mistakes.
"War and Pieced" is billed as the first U.S. exhibition highlighting quilts made by men during times of war.
Plath had many identities—and one of them was as a former college studio arts major.
The exhibition will include more than 1150 artifacts.
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.
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.
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.