US museum stalls Hiroshima exhibit over nuke weapon ban push

The Los Alamos Historical Museum recently announced it won’t be hosting a traveling exhibit organized by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and … The exhibit, which features articles of clothing, exposed plates, and other personal items from victims, aims to draw attention to the horrors of the bombs …

Museum board secretary Marilyn Swihart says the museum sprang forth from the 1970 Imlay City Centennial celebration. Once the celebration was over, the planning committee remained intact. In May of 1971, a study committee was created to research the idea of creating a permanent room or building to …

More than a year after vacating its base of operations in Fountain Square, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art has secured a new long-term location in the Holy Cross neighborhood on the city’s near-east side. IMOCA announced Tuesday that it will lease 2,300 square feet in the former Ford …

According to Nichols—who unearthed many of the exchanges detailed in this articleamid her extensive research on the subject—19th-century museums saw nothing unethical in this behavior. Most ethnographic items were originally procured either through bartering directly with indigenous peoples or …

To transport visitors to the grandest palace in France, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is counting on wallpaper and a recording technique with roots in the 19th century. “Visitors to Versailles (1682-1789),” which opens April 16, “is a very different show” for the Met, says Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, …