Want Students to Do Better in Class? Take Them on Culturally Enriching Field Trips
Students who attended three different field trips in fourth or fifth grade scored higher on end-of-grade exams, according to BYU research.
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Surviving the Nazis and Fire, 2000-Year-old Caligula Mosaic Finally Returns to Museum
After 90 years, a lost Roman mosaic that escaped a museum fire before being sold as a coffee table in the 1960s in NYC, has returned home.
(A Look Back) Watch 17th Century Rembrandt Celebrated in Raucous Dutch Flash Mob
This group of actors in Holland took shoppers by surprise when they rode in on horseback in honor of a beloved Rembrandt painting at the Rijksmuseum.
No Headline Could Do This Moment Justice: Two Lovers' Surprise Reunion is One Minute in Silence (WATCH)
When two famous performance artists meet in a surprise reunion after 30 years, it is on stage during one minute of silence, it is a powerful ode to love lost.
Long-Lost Renoir Returned to Baltimore Museum
A tiny Renoir painting has returned home to a gallery in the Baltimore Museum of Art nearly 63 years after it was stolen and then kept mysteriously hidden for decades until it resurfaced in 2012. Museum officials were thrilled and a little teary-eyed when it was returned to its rightful home.
Fans of Netflix 'Stranger Things' Series Inundate Museum With Mountains of Cash
The Science Museum of Minnesota has raked in a huge amount of valuable funding, thanks to the first episode of the new "Stranger Things" season.
Smithsonian Experts Help Harvey Survivors Restore Family Treasures
While homes and possessions can eventually be replaced, these preservation experts are working to salvage precious family heirlooms.
This Online Encyclopedia Catalogs All Life on Earth
Thanks to an ambitious global biodiversity initiative led by groups like the MacArthur Foundation, Smithsonian, and Harvard, a new online encyclopedia promises to catalog all life on Earth...
World's First Museum of Happiness to Open in UK
The official Museum of Happiness of Camden, London is set to open its doors in September.
96-Year-old Wants to Find New Owner For His Toilet Lid Museum
This Texas museum is home to over 1,300 decorated toilet seats – all created by the prince of porcelain himself: 96-year-old Barney Smith.
These Two Cultured Cats Have Spent the Last Two Years Trying to Get Inside an Art Museum
Though the security guard is happy to greet his feline visitors with a friendly pat on the head, he always dutifully turns them away at the door.
When 8-Year-old 'Queen' Finds Authentic Ancient Sword in a Lake, Her Fans Rally to Forge Her a Replica
Saga may only be 8 years old, but she already has an international fan club thanks to her recent discovery at the bottom of a Swedish lake.
Here's How You Can Visit Any of These 1,500 Museums For Free This Weekend
On Saturday, hundreds of cultural institutions across America will be celebrating Museum Day with free admission.
Goldfish Can Find a New Forever Home at Paris Aquarium - 600 Have Already Been Welcomed
This aquarium is hoping to offer up a second home to unwanted goldfish that may have suffered a worse fate at the hands of their owners.
You and a Friend Could Win a Once-in-a-Lifetime Slumber Party With Mona Lisa at the Louvre
AirBnb and the Musée du Louvre are hosting a contest for two lucky guests to win a once-in-a-lifetime sleepover experience at the museum.
Internet Campaign to Preserve Historic Manuscripts Raises $42K
Last year in Timbuktu, an irreplaceable trove of manuscripts at risk of being destroyed by advancing fundamentalist rebels, was secretly evacuated at great personal risk by a team of archivists, librarians, and couriers. The manuscripts were saved from immediate destruction, but today they are still jam packed in footlockers used for their evacuation, while enduring higher humidity than ever before, without protection. Now, an internet campaign launched to fund the purchase of archival bags and boxes to protect these documents has engaged people around the globe and raised $42,500.
Retired Parking Meters Raise Funds for Rainforests
Many people would be willing to donate a quarter for wildlife conservation, reckoned Norman Gershenz, a conservation biologist at San Francisco State University.
Early Relic Suggests First Americans Were Stone Age Europeans Who Traveled West 20,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists have long held that North America remained unpopulated until about 15,000 years ago, when Siberian people walked or boated into Alaska and then moved down the West Coast. But a dark, tapered stone blade, found near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, turned out to be 22,000 years old, suggesting that its makers probably paddled from Europe and arrived in America thousands of years ahead of the western migration.
Skyrocketing Donations Save the First Spacesuit Worn on the Moon
The Smithsonian launched a crowdfunding campaign to save the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the first moon walk and donations have skyrocketed.
Iraqi Man Rescues Artifacts in Looted Antiquities Museum
Namir Ibrahim Jamil, watched looters in Baghdad ransacking the Museum of Antiquities and loaded up two full vans with precious artifacts. He lovingly stored them for 11 days.
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