Museum Collections Find a Home Online
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It's a stately old building with looming columns, worn marble stairways and arched doorways &#151; dedicated in 1900 "to the conservation, advancement and dissemination of American Heritage."
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Tiny treasures are out there. You just have to look in the right places.
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Part of the Dutch national art collection featuring some 1,000 paintings, statues and other objects has gone on sale through Internet auction site eBay, officials said Friday.
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Initially skeptical, many scholars have recently applauded the Internet search service's project to digitize some of the world's best library collections.
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A growing number of people are turning to the online auction site not for knickknacks and trinkets, but for serious hardware and building materials.- The Washington Post
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NEW YORK -- The country's most prestigious fashion museum has invited the masses to serve as critics, historians and kibitzers in its new exhibition, "blog.mode: addressing fashion." The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is opening its doors to bloggers. This warm, fuzzy egalita...
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Moving the Barnes collection to a new location would afford a fresh perspective on the art.
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The works at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum are intended to reflect Eli Broadâs penchant for collecting in depth. But the accumulation reads foremost as a display of pricey trophies.
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By Emily Steel The Wall Street Journal  From the beginning, the Internet has attracted people seeking to research their family trees -- and sites wanting to make money off their pursuits.
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There are 1.1 million fossils in the collection of Harvard's Museum of Natural History: invertebrate, vertebrate, and one of more recent origin. Insert 50 cents, and it lets you make a phone call.
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The ever-expanding stacks of old books my wife, Georgina, and I want to give to our public library are crowding our home office space. We are itching to clean out the bedroom closets, too, and donate clothes we haven't worn for years to our church's thrift shop.
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Collection sold at Christie's sparks bidding in person, by phone and via internet.
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The newly donated collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings at the Metropolitan Museum is largely a delight from beginning to end.
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At the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, there's no need to turn off your cell phone at the door.  This interactive art show dials you into the beauty of the handheld. Plus: Images from the exhibit.  By Asami Novak.
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The library said it planned to digitize a collection of rare cultural materials and move forward with plans to create a global digital library in cooperation with other nations.
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American museums are returning some of the world's great antiquities to their original homes. Should they? A new debate over who owns the past is underway.
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Applications on display include tools for blogging, chatting, and participating in online auctions.