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Thieves Steal 3,000-Year-Old Treasure in a 'Super-Professional' Museum Heist That Took Only Four Minutes

Officials were shaken after dozens of ancient artifacts vanished from the local archaeological museum in Villena, Spain. The thieves left only a few pieces from the Bronze Age treasure behind

Freddie Mercury's Boundary-Pushing Costumes Take Center Stage at the Victoria and Albert Museum to Mark the 80th Anniversary of His Birth

Eight ensembles from the Queen frontman's career will be displayed across six stops in the London museum's permanent galleries, offering a glimpse into the clothes behind his legendary stage persona

Freddie Mercury's Most Iconic Stage Costumes Are Coming to London's V&A Museum

Summary Features eight iconic costumes and personal accessories tracing the legendary frontman's career from Queen's 1973 debut to his later solo workDeveloped in collaboration with Mary Austin to celebrate what would have been Mercury's 80th anniversary yearIncludes a free trail

Sledgehammers and explosives more common in museum heists, Europol says

A museum-shelf mystery reveals 6,500-year-old human tooth pendant in Serbia

More than 6,500 years ago, someone carefully drilled a hole in a human tooth, strung it on a cord and likely used it as a necklace. Found during field surveys at the Vinča cultural site of Jablanica in Serbia, the human tooth was originally misidentified as an animal tooth bead u

Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

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Melissa Chiu, new director of the Guggenheim Museum, talks about the role of culture in a time of turmoil

Melissa Chiu, longtime director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, announced in April that she would be leaving for a new role as director of New York’s Solomon R.

These Best Museums in Tokyo Showcase the Japanese Capital's Unparalleled Arts Scene

The capital's arts scene, like the city itself, marches to its own beat.

Watermen’s Museum in Yorktown, Virginia

Unlike museums that focus on naval battles or famous ships, the Watermen’s Museum celebrates the ordinary people who built a culture around the Chesapeake Bay.

Misconduct investigation under way into two Powerhouse Museum executives

John Galliano Bows Out of Met Museum Show After Criticism Mounts - The New York Times

John Galliano Bows Out of Met Museum Show After Criticism Mounts The New York Times The John Galliano 2027 Met Gala has been canceled CNN Metropolitan Museum of Art cancels planned Met Gala exhibit on fashion designer John Galliano AP News Met cancels Galliano exhibition over ant

Hidden museum gallery to reopen after 83 years

The gallery, which has been closed since 1943, will reopen from 16 September.

Austria museum heist: Thieves snatch diamond necklace

The stolen necklace, studded with 673 precious stones, belonged to Egypt's Queen Nazli. It was being displayed as part of the museum's exhibition for designs by France's Van Cleef and Arpels.

Thieves buy tickets before stealing necklace from Vienna museum

Spain: Thieves steal Bronze Age gold in lightning raid on Villena Museum

One of the world's greatest Bronze Age gold collections has been swiped, almost in its entirety, from Villena Museum. A highly professional group of thieves were in and out in four minutes flat before the museum opened.

North American Cryptid Museum in Plano, Texas

Allen Hopps, owner and creator of the North American Cryptid Museum (NACM) in Plano, Texas, has a message he wants everyone to hear: Our world needs monsters!

Spain's Villena Treasure stolen in four-minute museum heist

Almost the entire Villena Treasure, one of Europe's most valuable Bronze Age collections, was stolen from a museum in eastern Spain in a four-minute raid after thieves smashed through a window and bulletproof glass.

Bronze age treasure stolen in four-minute Spanish museum heist

Gold collection known as Treasure of Villena, worth at least €1.7m, is target of ‘very well planned’ raid Thieves in Spain have raided the Treasure of Villena – a stunning collection of bronze age gold artefacts that has been described as the most impor

Thieves raid bronze age collection in ‘super-fast’ Spain museum heist

It is not immediately known how many of the 50-plus mainly gold objects from the Treasure of Villena were taken.

‘Only One of Its Kind’ Jellyfish Museum Astounds Visitors With Awe-Inspiring Displays of Sea Nettles Safely Behind Glass

The museum opened in the spring and was founded by two aquarium experts who fled the Russia-Ukraine war

Stunning Antiquities and Frida Kahlo’s Home Are Just Some of the Offerings That Have Bolstered Mexico City’s Fantastic Array of Museums

The ancient capital has plenty of artwork and fossils, if that’s what you like. Or tour the writing rooms of a Nobel winner, the fortified home of an exiled Russian revolutionary and towers of skulls

Closed to the Public Since WWII, a ‘Hidden’ Gallery at London’s Natural History Museum Opens Its Doors Once Again

Animal skeletons, Neolithic tools and pop culture memorabilia are among the dozens of objects to be displayed in the reopened “Nature and Us” exhibition

Guns, axes, explosives: violent museum heists are on the rise, says Europol

EU police agency says shift could point to involvement of new criminal networks focused on specific artefacts Robberies at European museums are becoming increasingly violent, with thieves sometimes brandishing guns, assaulting staff and using sledgehammers, axes and even explosiv

Groninger Museum "deserves to be more famous" says artistic director Roos Gortzak

With a renewed focus on contemporary art, Groninger Museum artistic director Roos Gortzak is seeking closer connection between the extraordinary postmodern building, she says in this interview. "I think you always have to start as a curator with where you're at – so I would never

Seven new frog species were hiding beneath Madagascar’s forest floor

Scientists have discovered seven new species of Madagascar’s elusive diamond frogs, using DNA from modern and century-old museum specimens to solve a long-running biological puzzle.

190-year-old DNA reveals a hidden pangolin species

DNA from a nearly 190-year-old museum specimen has helped scientists confirm a distinct Himalayan pangolin species hiding in plain sight in Nepal and northern India.

Taylor Swift Wore a West Village Girl Staple for Her First Post-Wedding Performance

The pop star took to the Grammy Museum stage for an intimate performance of songs and a conversation about her roots and career.

Watch Taylor Swift Say She Feels ‘More Loyal’ to Her Country Roots Than Ever & Whip Up an Eras Tour-Coded Surprise Piano Mash-Up

The performance of "I Knew It, I Knew You," "August" & "All Too Well" came at the end of a Grammy Museum Q&A with Harvey Mason jr.

The First Battery Was Inspired By a Dead Frog

In a display case on the lower level of the Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution in London, there’s an unassuming stack of gray metal discs and blotting paper.

Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid

Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in Vienna and once belon

Day One at Vanderbilt’s New York Campus

Among the tech and finance kids, there are plenty of students drawn to Museum Studies and the Chelsea art scene.

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An exhibition tracing the vision behind Herzog & de Meuron 's ten selected projects in China will open on September 12, 2026, at the M+ Museum in Hong Kong .

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World Architecture Festival, in partnership with Make Architects and Sir John Soane's Museum, has opened entries for the ninth edition of The Architecture Drawing Prize, sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group.

New Jersey is a fossil hotspot, with answers about the day the dinosaurs died

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fossil park and museum.

Yayoi Kusama, artist of renowned polka dot paintings and installations, dies at 97

The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama , who splashed her signature polka dots on paintings, sculptures and museum installations around the world , has died, her studio said Thursday.

Do Ho Suh Brings Over 500 Works to Seoul's MMCA

Summary National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea is hosting a major solo exhibition by Do Ho SuhThe show features a career-spanning collection, including several of his colorful "fabric architecture" installations among unseen early works and recent textile

Takeda Hideo Subverts Samurai Mythology in ‘Genpei: Defying Authority’

Summary Princeton University Art Museum unveils Takeda Hideo’s Genpei: Defying Authority , showcasing all 22 screenprints.On view from August 30 - January 3, 2027, the artwork satirizes The Tale of the Heike , critiquing samurai ideals and romanticized violence.

Yayoi Kusama, high priestess of polka dots, has died

The Japanese artist has died at age 97. Kusama's polka dotted pumpkins, "Infinity Rooms," and other repetitive and dreamlike artworks have been shown in museums and galleries worldwide.

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Powerhouse Parramatta , a new museum and cultural institution on the banks of the Parramatta River in Western Sydney , Australia , will open to the public on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The 30,000-square-meter building has been designed by Franco-Japanese firm Moreau Kusunoki as

Taylor Swift Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton: ‘She Was True Grace and True Grit, All in One Dazzling Person’ - Variety

Taylor Swift Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton: ‘She Was True Grace and True Grit, All in One Dazzling Person’ Variety Dolly Parton Died After Brief Battle With Cancer The New York Times Dolly Parton Shares Health Update While Announcing Plans for Museum (Exclusive) People.com Stars P

Isis Heiligtum (Isis and Magna Mater Temple) in Mainz, Germany

What do you do when you've built a shopping mall but you find an ancient Roman temple underneath part of it? If you are in Mainz, Germany, you build the mall up around it, but leave it in place to be a hidden museum to the past. This is the "Isis-Heiligtum" (Isis Temple) in Mainz

Climate change is unearthing archaeological discoveries, while also threatening them

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Jørgen Hollesen, a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, about how climate change is impacting the study of archaeology.

The End of an Athlon

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These ‘Extremely Rare’ 17th-Century Drawings Were Astonishingly Well-Preserved. Now They Are on Display for the First Time in Nearly a Century

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum acquired the drawing book, which has artwork attributed to Rombout Uylenburgh, a celebrated 17th-century Dutch painter whose legacy later fell into obscurity

Schaum Architects to lead restoration of Donald Judd's Artillery Sheds in Texas

Texas studio Schaum Architects has joined a team of restorers to work on the two massive Artillery Sheds at the Chinati Foundation, the museum artist Donald Judd set up in Marfa to act as permanent storehouses and exhibition spaces for his work. Schaum Architects will serve as de

Three Days of Hot Dogs, Boutiques, and Football for an Ohio State Buckeyes Game Weekend

Columbus is always evolving.