Walk into any major museum and you’re surrounded by masterpieces that generations of art lovers have studied and admired. Beneath those familiar surfaces lie secrets that remained hidden for centuries ...

The National Museum of American History also revealed some of its more curious past with a photograph of staff members in colorful corn costumes for “a faux scholarly conference on corn.” The ...

Museum staff conserving a Bronze Age hoard have described the “magical” moment the “silvery surface” of its contents emerged from beneath thousands of years of dirt and corrosion. The Peebles Hoard, ...