What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art will reopen Tuesday, Sept. 11, almost two weeks after Hurricane Isaac rain found its way into the City Park landmark's basement. While the damage from Isaac was minimal, ...

Paleontologists are used to digging deep for dinosaur remains--but to turn up a newly discovered dinosaur species, they had to dig no deeper than the basement of a London museum. London's Natural ...

It’s always good to get a second opinion—and a third. For proof of this, look no further than a “fake” Rembrandt painting that spent four decades languishing in a museum basement that experts now ...

Laguna Beach Art Assn. founding member Frank Cuprien paid just $1.50 to have his name inscribed on the floor of the organization’s new basement gallery in 1934. Eighty-five years later, the name of ...

Titian portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro (c.1528) that was recently discovered in London’s National Gallery (via IBT, photo by National Gallery) It seems like ever other month a new painting by an Old ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A Civil War museum that has called the basement of Scranton City Hall home for the past decade ...

“The Range,” a collection of reptiles, amphibians, fish and other animals stored in jars of ethanol or formaldehyde at the Georgia Natural History Museum Annex. Interns are in the process of ...

It started back in the 1980s with the construction of Aker Brygge, a tourist-trappy wharf on the Oslo Fjord packed with pricey restaurants and bars. In 2008 came the eye-catching, blindingly white ...

The Museum of Applied Arts in Poznań, Poland, doesn’t just house a collection of Italian, German, Western European, and Polish Baroque paintings. As it turns out, its centuries-old building also holds ...

Some kids get a smartphone, a laptop, even a car, when they turn 18. Julia Wijesinghe got a 501 (c)(3). That’s the IRS tax code for nonprofit organizations. It’s also what helped Wijesinghe open the ...

PITTSFIELD — For lovers of the Berkshire Museum's aquarium, fear not: The fish will be back, and the animals, too, and they'll have plenty of new friends. On Thursday, the museum officially bid bon ...