One day before the 201st. anniversary of the May Revolution, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner inaugurated the Museum of the Bicentennial. "This place belongs to everyone," the president said during a live TV broadcast.
Speaking before an audience that included members from several political parties, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner presented a draft bill that she will be sending to Congress soon, which looks to amend the Civil Code and unify it with the Commercial Code.
International museums are on high alert for looted Egyptian artefacts and some archaeologists have even offered to fly to the country to help safeguard its ancient treasures, museums said.
Britain's Art Fund unveiled a longlist of 10 museums and galleries nominated for the annual 100,000 pound ($160,000) Museum of the Year prize, with institutions in England, Scotland and Wales represented.
Egypt's Antiquities Ministry has recovered some of the national treasures that went missing from the Egyptian Museum during an uprising which unseated Hosni Mubarak, the country's top Egyptologist said.
A dispute over construction costs is delaying the planned opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York on the 11th anniversary of the attacks next year, officials said.
The United States returned an artwork by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro to French authorities, more than three decades after it was stolen from the wall of a small museum in southeastern France.
The German Historical Museum in Berlin must return a collection of thousands of rare, handcrafted posters seized more than 70 years ago by the Nazis to the son of the original owner, Germany's federal court said.
A Dutch museum said it has finally been able to attribute an anonymous painting in its collection to 19th century post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh.
What was life like for the father of psychoanalysis who made a profession of analysing the lives of others?
Curators are making hard choices at the museum memorializing the September 11, 2001 attacks at the site of the World Trade Center's toppled twin towers, aiming to convey the horror of the event without trespassing into ghoulishness.
Decades after he slept under a pinball machine wedged into his cramped apartment, David Silverman will open the US' largest museum dedicated to speeding silver balls and fast-motion flippers.
While everyone else is worrying about Afghanistan's future, a dedicated band of men and women is gathering up its past, hoping that a growing museum collection will show the world Afghan culture is more sophisticated than the tide of news reports suggest.
Three men are being formally investigated over the theft of five famous paintings by artists including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse from a French museum, the Paris Prosecutor's office said, in a heist worth US$130 million.
The retired space shuttle Endeavour was getting set for a road trip unlike any of its previous journeys, one that will see it crawl through the streets of Los Angeles instead of hurtling through the solitary reaches of space.
The retired space shuttle Endeavour rolled through Los Angeles at a tortoise-like crawl, squeezing through narrow streets as it headed to its new permanent home at a local museum.
NASA's last space shuttle rolled out of a hangar in Florida and traveled down the road to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to begin a new life as a museum piece.
The Paris Louvre opens a regional offshoot this week in a former mining town in northern France, hoping to revitalize a region better known for football fans and takeaway chip stands than the noble pursuit of art.
The Dallas Museum of Art has returned an ancient piece of artwork to Turkish officials after learning that the piece was likely looted from an archeological site.
The space shuttle Endeavour, built to replace NASA's lost ship Challenger, prepared for a final flight th is week, heading not into orbit but west to a Los Angeles museum.
Vienna's Jewish Museum holds hundreds of books and works of art that may have been stolen by Nazis, a newspaper reported today.
Spain's Prado museum received its biggest private donation in decades today with the gift of 12 medieval and Renaissance works by Spanish artists.
A French art collector claims to have found the head from the nude body that appears in a famously explicit 19th Century oil painting of a woman's genitalia.
A museum devoted to pop supergroup ABBA will open next year in the Swedish capital aiming to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors, organizers said on Wednesday.
The former London home of Charles Dickens reopened today, after an eight-month, 3.1 million-pound ($5 million) refurbishment celebrating the author's bicentenary.
Items from actress Farrah Fawcett's career will be enshrined in national history with a donation to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, including that red bathing suit.
Arnold Schwarzenegger took a trip down memory lane in Austria today, visiting his childhood home to open a museum dedicated to his life.
A French museum paid 691,000 pounds ($1.1 million) for a miniature manuscript written by Charlotte Bronte, ending hopes it would return to the British author's former home that is now a museum.
With nearly 20 museums, galleries and the National Zoo, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC can be a daunting experience, but new maps on an app may make it less confusing and easier for visitors to maneuver.