Museums & galleries

Washington’s ‘hall of history’ gets a rare makeover

Visitors in the Rotunda at the Capitol in Washington. The National Archives has added the Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment to the grand central rotunda of its headquarters in Washington, the first additions to its permanent display of founding documents in nearly 75 years.

‘Extraordinary news’: Dutch recover stolen gold Romanian helmet

In 2025, a gang of robbers used firework bombs to break into the Drents Museum in the northern Netherlands to steal the items.

Uniqlo to open first museum pop-up at Asian Civilisations Museum and launch T-shirt collab in April

The pop-up kicks off its opening weekend with a series of free arts programmes at the museum titled “A Weekend of Curiousities”, part of ACM’s Crossing Cultures festival.

Renoir, Cezanne, and Matisse works stolen from Italian museum

Four masked men entered the villa of the Magnani Rocca Foundation, near Parma in northern Italy, and made off with the artworks overnight.

MoMath in New York brings prime numbers to a prime new location

The interactive exhibit ÒPrime Properties,Ó which shows the prime factors of integers from 1 to 100, at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York, Feb. 24, 2026. After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in what was an empty storefront along the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)

Inside the arrest that led to Banksy’s possible unmasking decades later

People taking photos of a piece of art by Banksy on a wall in New York on Oct 15, 2013.

Turkey in cultural diplomacy push to bring history home

Turkey has stepped up efforts to combat illicit antiquities trading and in 2025 alone secured the repatriation of 180 cultural artefacts.

BTS to launch Arirang pop-up store in Seoul ahead of album release

(Clockwise from top) A hairpin and hair clip, card holder, layered skirt, and keychain released in collaboration with BTS and MU:DS.

Tastemakers

Widow invests $800,000 to start S'pore hawker culture experience centre in honour of late husband

Ms Lena Lee at Jiak 99, a hawker edutainment spot that introduces locals and tourists to Singapore’s hawker culture.

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum says new Rembrandt uncovered

"The Vision of Zechariah in the Temple" by Rembrandt disappeared from public view after a private individual purchased it in 1961.

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