Museum dedicated to Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, designed as an experiential fantasy world, has officially opened in Odense ~design architecture Link 6 votes
In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom ~life.women Article 1541 words 6 votes
Norway's £500m National Museum to open after eight-year wait – director apologises for delays that have kept Munch's The Scream out of public view ~arts art painting Article 787 words 7 votes
Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi ~humanities.history Article 997 words 4 votes
Avicii's musical legacy is being celebrated at an interactive museum in Stockholm, which also raises awareness of mental health in the music industry ~music Article 956 words 6 votes
Hiding art in basements, returning loans, reopening as bomb shelters: How Ukraine’s museums are handling the Russian invasion ~arts art Article 846 words 10 votes
Peculiar musical instruments at St Cecilia's Hall - The University of Edinburgh's musical instrument museum ~music Video 10:39 4 votes
Dutch museums and concert halls open as hair salons to protest Covid rules ~health Article 444 words 6 votes
A new species of dinosaur with an unusually large nose has been identified by a retired GP who spent lockdown rummaging through boxes of hundreds of old bones ~science Article 335 words 7 votes
The collective MSCHF bought a Warhol, created 999 replicas, and is now selling each for $250. The catch: you'll never know which one is real. ~arts painting Article 583 words 19 votes
Vienna museums starts OnlyFans account after its TikTok is banned for posting nudes ~arts art.fine Article 377 words 17 votes
Edvard Munch wrote mysterious graffiti on The Scream, infrared scans have shown – a small and barely visible sentence has been the cause of much conjecture in the art world ~arts art painting Article 531 words 8 votes
An Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks – then dropped them in the Mediterranean ~enviro Article 924 words, published Nov 17 2020 15 votes
How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming ~arts Article 3211 words 8 votes
The world's first happiness museum opens in Denmark – the Nordic country is consistently ranked among the planet's happiest ~life Article 564 words 7 votes
Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark ~humanities.history Article 7 votes
Survey of 760 US museums shows extreme financial distress from the pandemic, with almost all reporting that they have a year or less of financial operating reserves remaining ~arts Article 292 words, published Jul 22 2020 9 votes
If the Louvre was on fire, should we rescue the art first or the people? ~arts art.fine Article 691 words 23 votes
Helsinki Photo Festival – Fifty-eight international and Nordic photographers displayed in venues across the city; the overall theme for the festival is trust ~arts photography Article 49 words 5 votes
13% of museums worldwide may close permanently due to COVID-19, studies say ~arts Article 523 words, published May 20 2020 10 votes
Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow ~arts art painting Article 753 words 7 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud ~humanities.history Article 8361 words 11 votes
A 44,8 gigapixel photo of Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting (do not open on mobile data) ~arts art Link 16 votes
Confronting the colonial legacies of museum collections ~humanities.history Article 2314 words 8 votes
Henning Larsen has revealed plans for The Arctic University Museum of Norway, which will evoke a cascade of glass beacons on the coast of Tromsø ~design architecture Article 796 words 4 votes
The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries ~humanities.history Article 2892 words 11 votes
A one-take journey through the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia ~arts Video 5:19:47 5 votes
The "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype was purchased at auction for $300,000 by Greg McLemore, founder of Pets.com who now runs the International Arcade Museum ~games Article 482 words 10 votes
Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain ~humanities.history Article 1740 words 14 votes
Suffering from lower back pain while visiting a museum? You’re not alone ~arts Article 1000 words 4 votes
World's first floorball museum to be opened in Finland – floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper, invented in Sweden in the late 1960s ~sports.hockey Article 292 words 5 votes
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which was supposed to open three years ago, will open its doors in December, as revealed during Sunday night's Oscars. It's currently $100 million over budget. ~movies Article 330 words 5 votes
The peculiarities of pregnancy in art, from corsets to belly pads and hidden bumps ~arts art painting Article 1093 words 5 votes
The opening of the long-awaited Munch Museum in Oslo has been postponed until the autumn due to delays in the building process ~arts art painting Article 370 words 3 votes
Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic – only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is unmistakably his work ~arts art painting Article 441 words 9 votes
A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel ~humanities.history Article 6194 words 7 votes
Researchers used skeletal remains and ancient DNA to reconstruct the burial of a woman who lived in what is now southern Sweden 7,000 years ago ~humanities.history Article 891 words, published Nov 11 2019 4 votes
New LA museum spotlights Hollywood costumes, from Dracula cape to Spider Woman dress ~design fashion Article 546 words 7 votes