When Hurricane Ida hit New York City in 2021, water pipes in Queens were already backed up, and the heavy rain caused severe flooding – killing 11 residents. How do these pipes work, and what made ...

The Orlando Museum of Art’s low-vision event series underscored the importance of expanding accessibility programs so that no one is excluded from the full experience of art. Courtesy Orlando Museum ...

Museums today are at the frontlines of a generational battle for accountability. In the wake of movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, a wave of protests has swept through the art world in ...

What’s at stake isn’t just about money; it’s about value: who defines it, who benefits from it, and how it’s exchanged. In the late 20th century and into the early 2000s, museums relied on a value ...

Museums today are much larger physically as well as in size of staff and budgets than they were just a few decades ago — and therefore more complex and harder to manage. Size in itself is not a ...

Around 530 BC, the world's first public museum opened its doors in the Mesopotamian state of Ur, in modern-day Iraq. The curator was a priestess princess, and the museum was part of the palace complex ...