The American Museum of Natural History says it plans to improve its handling of thousands of human remains. A recent investigation found that the New York institution has not been proactive in sharing ...

The American Museum of Natural History in New York City will remove human remains from its displays and has vowed to make policy changes after recent reports raised concerns about legality and ethics ...

The new work adds to the legacy of Dave Johnson, a long-time museum curator famed for his detail-oriented research on fishes Jack Tamisiea A pair of coelacanth specimens that were formerly on loan to ...

The American Museum of Natural History said it would address its collecting of remains, which stretched into the 1940s and included practices now viewed as abusive and racist. By Zachary Small Zachary ...

“You know what I’m gonna miss?” I asked Wren, “That musty museum smell. I bet it’s gone.” She laughed, “If it’s gone, should we ask the museum people if it’s stored somewhere?” My 21-year-old daughter ...

They hope you love what they’ve done with the place. This weekend, the folks at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History are reopening the nearly 105-year-old institution after a years-in-the-making ...

As Sheryl Crow snarls her way through “If It Makes You Happy,” the music video for one of her most popular songs shows her trapped inside an L.A. County Museum of Natural History diorama of a simple ...

The Trump administration is reviewing the National Museum of Natural History as part of a broad inquiry into the Smithsonian Institute. The museum's exhibits cover Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, ...

At a time when the public teaching of science is again being fought over, the largest museum of natural history in the U.S. just extended its reach. Jeffrey Brown got a look inside the American Museum ...

The American Museum of Natural History will revive the sleepover nights next month. There’s a new movie in the works, too. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll find out about the return of ...

It is not uncommon to hear the director of a fine-art museum, presiding over the ribbon-cutting for a shiny new wing, declare that its architecture is so pathbreaking that the building itself, far ...