Treasures stolen from a Russian museum during WWII have found their way back home. Two crates with hundreds of rare exhibits stolen in 1941 were voluntarily returned to Russia by a Wehrmacht doctor's son.
Many national museums in France, including the venerable Louvre in Paris, will be offering free admission in the coming months. 18 museums will be participating in an experiment to get the public to experience high culture, the country's Culture Ministry announced. (
A Roman marble coffin which was spotted in the bushes of a garden in England has sold at auction for £96,000. The 7ft sarcophagus from the 2nd century was being used as a trough to stand flowers in on a property in Dorset.
This interactive video lets you wander around inside a Salvador Dali painting, thanks to some help from Disney.
Blind and visually impaired people are finally getting to enjoy some of the world's greatest art. The novel exhibit uses 3D, textured reliefs for touching.
Woody and Buzz Lightyear haven't made the cut, but some of their "Toy Story" friends, like Mr. Potato Head and Barbie, have. It's Toy Hall of Fame time...
Keeping your soulmate alive with a museum of their very own... Talk about a labor of love.
Preservationists guarding Timbuktu's centuries-old artifacts said that in a large-scale rescue operation early last year, shortly before Islamist militants seized control of the city, thousands of manuscripts were hauled out of the Ahmed Baba Institute to a safe house elsewhere.
The massive Space Shuttle Endeavour rolled carefully through the streets of Los Angeles today, creeping slowly towards its final resting place at the California Science Center. People lined the streets pointing their cameras as the five-story-tall spacecraft with its 78-foot wingspan wound along its journey.
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