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## museums


* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt950e128a31f262b1/6aa0a668130d610dfc947781/GettyImages-2243291751.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 8, 2026  
## [Yes, There Has Been an Uptick in High-Profile Art Heists. Here’s Why](https://time.com/article/2026/09/08/-we-are-under-siege-renoir-heist-joins-an-art-thievery-trend/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Rebecca Schneid
* ![American Museum of Natural History](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19108670d5d596b4/698a443edb29876c2e269c4b/AP626866681107.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 27, 2024  
## [Major NYC Museum Closes Certain Displays Amid New Federal Regulations](https://time.com/6589334/natural-history-museum-native-american-displays-federal-regulations/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Mallory Moench
* ![Holocaust survivor Mary Wygodski, 95, gets ready to record testimony in April 2021 in St. Petersburg, Fla.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5db45bdbae84de8e/698a317216d8849cf5c3a9d0/Mary-Wygodski-DiT-2021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 6, 2022  
## [How a Holocaust Survivor Finally Learned Her Own Birth Name](https://time.com/6172605/holocaust-survivor-birth-name/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman
* ![Workers move the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis in the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum as part of safety preparations](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85b2aa41c6f713b4/698a306709208f7c5741902b/ukraine-art-safety.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 29, 2022  
## [Ukraine's Museums Race to Save the Country’s History](https://time.com/6161734/ukraine-war-history-museums/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman
* ![The Breakers—Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s Newport, R.I., mansion—in 1914](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbefe77901d80e09d/698a1090011682e15897fa19/museums-coronavirus-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 23, 2020  
## [The Uncertain Future of Places That Preserve America’s Past](https://time.com/5870460/museums-coronavirus/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman  
* ![Daily Life In London](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba57802f626b50f8/698a027709208fef94415809/british-museum-london-exterior.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 9, 2019  
## [Why a Plan to Redefine the Meaning of 'Museum' Is Stirring Up Controversy](https://time.com/5670807/museums-definition-debate/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Suyin Haynes
* ![Stonewall Anniversary](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7555e35d7cea3a8a/6989492eb3fce33f540c389d/stonewall.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 30, 2019  
## [50 Years After Stonewall, We’re Still Disagreeing About What Happened There. That’s Why the Archives Matter](https://time.com/5579971/christopher-st-stonewall-history/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Jason Baumann
* ![Sunrise in New York City](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt705aa376ecdf06d5/6989455722fb857642e27ce9/presidents-day-statue-of-liberty-torch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 18, 2019  
## [See Behind the Scenes as the Statue of Liberty's Original Torch Moves to Its New Home](https://time.com/5531547/statue-liberty-torch/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Brian Braganza and Lauren Bogholtz
* ![Rio Museum after the fire](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce4f5074f416b87f/6989398886f68e18d06ea16d/brazil-fire-museum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 6, 2018  
## [The Brazil Museum Fire Was a Stark Reminder That History Is Always in Danger of Being Lost Forever](https://time.com/5387815/museums-are-not-forever-brazil/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by The Conversation
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Mar 22, 2018  
## [What If Museums Cost More for Rich People](https://time.com/5210791/what-if-museums-cost-more-for-rich-people/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by The Aspen Institute  
* ![Museum goers take photos at the Bouquets to Art exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 14, 2018. ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fa5e06a9c97c26a/69892b2e22fb853328e2519e/de-young-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 17, 2018  
## [Is Instagram Ruining Art? One Museum Is Trying 'Photo Free' Hours](https://time.com/5204051/smartphones-instagram-museum-art-de-young/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by Katy Steinmetz
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a60b8769a7910a2/6988fa4822fb8590b2e24933/bria_google1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 2, 2018  
## [These Black History Artifacts Are Too Delicate to Touch, So I Recreated Them in 3-D](https://time.com/5129336/google-3d-exhibition-african-american-history-museum/)  
by Bria Sullivan
* ![Caption: Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Worship, 1943, offset color lithograph on paper; Texas War Records Collection, 85.170.158  
Caption: Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Worship, 1943, offset color lithograph on paper; Texas War Records Collection, 85.170.158](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06410d880fd68fa3/6988e54bab6d7777646b08ff/veterans-day_four-freedoms-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 10, 2017  
## [How FDR's 'Four Freedoms' Inspired Americans During World War II](https://time.com/5018128/war-posters-four-freedoms/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Harry Ransom Center
* ![President Eisenhower's message launching the U.S. into combat in Casablanca](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf904b515e5e66baf/6988e3bd4ee2629cdd30f922/play-ball-scan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 8, 2017  
## ['Play Ball': See the Message That Launched American Soldiers Into World War II](https://time.com/5005274/wwii-casablanca-play-ball-message/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Lily Rothman
* ![MacMorris' team at work on recreating the painting](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcadd9db542a34ac8/6988e1c4cf40a886bac49cbf/pantheon-section3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 19, 2017  
## [The World Forgot About a 402-Foot-Long Painting. Here's What Happened When It Was Found](https://time.com/4980226/pantheon-world-war-i-painting/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Lily Rothman

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