The Chinese Rotunda holds artifacts in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, which lacks storage space.[Ari Friedman/The Daily Pennsylvanian] With boxes of bones, fragments of fossils and crates ...

Volunteers at the Clark County Museum had become accustomed to finding animal bones while combing through storage boxes, but last month one volunteer made an unusual discovery: two human skulls and ...

A thief or group of thieves stole more than 1,000 objects from the off-site storage facility of the Oakland Museum of California (OCMA) during an early-morning break-in this month. The heist took ...

“It belongs in a museum!” It’s a common refrain among archaeologists who are passionate about preserving artifacts for future generations. But anyone who’s seen the end of the 1981 documentary Raiders ...

This semester as a Collections Intern, I’ve spent a lot of time accessioning and cataloging donations or museum purchases and adding them to the database. In doing this, much of my time was also spent ...

A dried rose from the funeral bier of Abraham Lincoln has been discovered—intact—in a forgotten box at an Illinois museum. Sandy Vasko, director of the Will County Historical Museum and Research ...