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Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In
Conversation about monuments has reached a fever pitch, and the city was split on this one. The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition on it. There's a quote that takes …
A Tibetan Collection Fights a Battle That Small Museums Often Face
Limited staff, tight budgets and age have taken a toll on Staten Island's Jacques Marchais Museum, but a major renovation is now being planned. Jacques Marchais, an art dealer and …
The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last
The role of women art-makers in Native communities has gone widely ignored. Now a bold museum show, by and for these women, is shining a light on 1,000 years of their art. Sonya …
Should These Clothes Be Saved?
Thousands of articles of everyday women's clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie? It is possible that one of the more …
Weeksville, a Haven for Free African-Americans Before the Civil War, Is Fighting for Survival
What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] Weeksville could have vanished altogether once before. The remains of the village of free African-Americans who …
“As Native Americans, We Are in a Constant State of Mourning”
The return of ancestors and artifacts can become a form of restorative justice. By Chip Colwell Dr. Colwell is an anthropologist and museum curator in Denver. In the early 1920s, the …
Everything Is Bigger at Open-Air Museums
DAYTON, Ohio - Every Sunday from May to October, Larry Weinstein plays music for people here in Dayton, on the towering Deeds Carillon, which rises above the city's south side. Suspended …
What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It
On the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History, a diorama depicts an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape, an Indigenous tribe inhabiting New …
Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements
Fueled by philanthropic zeal, lucrative tax deductions and the prestige of seeing their works in esteemed settings, wealthy art owners have for decades given museums everything from their …
Reimagining the Museum Tour
The Getaway A spate of innovative tours aim to make museum visits more fun, and less dutiful. On a recent Monday afternoon, Sarah Dunnavant, a 27-year-old actress and guide with the tour …
A New Type of Museum for an Age of Migration
Critic's Notebook HAMBURG, Germany - When Europeans of the 18th and 19th centuries established their grandest museums, each building meant to unite the world's cultural heritage under a …
A Canadian Museum Promotes Indigenous Art. But Don’t Call It ‘Indian.’
TORONTO - A group of visitors young and old gathered at the Art Gallery of Ontario in front of a well-known Canadian painting the docent called "Church in Yuquot Village." It was a …