Wired

The Science Museum Wants Their Plastic Samples. They Refused

When a curator from the Science Museum in London asked Deonie and Steve Allen whether they would like their work to be added to the museum’s permanent collection of artifacts, they jumped at the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Pledges to Return Hundreds of Native American Hair Samples Housed at Peabody Museum

Harvard’s Peabody Museum on Thursday pledged to return hundreds of hair samples taken from Native American children who were enrolled in government-run schools in the 1930s and apologized for keeping ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Pterosaur, Ancient Asteroid Brine and More Discoveries from the National Museum of Natural History in 2025

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...
Business Wire

EnChroma Glasses Enable Color Blind Visitors to Experience Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Vibrant Color

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EnChroma, Inc. – creators of patented eyewear for color blindness – today announced that The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will participate in the EnChroma Color ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Harvard Museum Pledges to Return Hair Samples of 700 Native American Children

Harvard's Peabody Museum received the collection of 700 Native American hair samples as a donation in 1935. Joseph Sohm For over 80 years, Harvard University’s Peabody Museum has been in possession of ...
NPR

NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar

FORT MEADE, Md. — Late last week, a national museum literally papered over history. Responding to President Trump's order that terminated diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the ...
Artnet

The Dallas Museum of Art Is Offering High-Tech Glasses So Color-Blind Viewers Can See Art in Vivid Color

The Dallas Museum of Art is giving color blind visitors a chance to experience some of the museum’s most vibrant paintings. Kazuya Sakai, Integrales II (Edgard ...
WHYY

Former Mütter Museum forensic anthropologist launches research institute

Longtime Mütter Museum forensic anthropologist Anna Dhody will continue her work analyzing historic samples, but now in a research institute of her own. Former Mutter Museum forensic anthropologist ...
The New York Times

Harvard Museum Will Return Hundreds of Native American Hair Samples

The Peabody Museum apologized for its “complicity in the objectification of Native peoples” by holding hair samples taken from Indigenous children at government boarding schools in the 1930s. By ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Harvard announces plan to return of hundreds of Native American hair samples held in museum

Last Thursday, Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology pledged to return hundreds of hair samples currently in its collection that was taken from Native Americans. The samples ...
Seattle Times

Harvard museum will return hundreds of Native American hair samples

The Peabody Museum at Harvard University said Thursday that it would return a collection of hair samples that were taken in the early 1930s from hundreds of Native American children who were forced to ...