Dec 1st, 2008 · Alex Nyerges is no stranger to working 16-hour days and wearing multiple hats. As director of the VMFA, his domain ranges from the art blogosphere to the museum's $130 million construction site — with countless travel obligations, fundraising opportunities and donor visits thrown in for good measure.
Nov 24th, 2008 · Each year, 850 million people visit America's museums. That's more than six times the annual attendance of all major-league sporting events combined. Bob Mondello kicks off an NPR series about museums in the 21st century.
Nov 20th, 2008 · Washington's National Mall will regain a star attraction Friday, when the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History reopens after a two-year renovation. It took $85 million and a horde of curators, builders, architects and advisers to reframe space for the museum's 3 million historic objects.
Oct 23rd, 2008 · The Little House on the Prairie Museum, located near Independence, Kan., on the site where the Ingalls family once settled, has been sued by the production company behind the Little House on the Prairie TV series. At issue is who really owns the rights to the name "Little House on the Prairie."
Oct 22nd, 2008 · Just in time for Halloween: A wax head of singer Paul McCartney is on the loose. The mop-topped likeness came from a wax museum at a seaside resort in England. A London auctioneer had taken it — in a cardboard box — to be appraised. And then left the box under a train seat somewhere between London and Reading. There's a reward for the head of Sir Paul, whose whereabouts remained something of a magical mystery.
Sep 25th, 2008 · A building heralded as the greenest museum in the world opens Saturday in San Francisco. The California Academy of Sciences fits in with the natural world in both form and function.
Aug 29th, 2008 · Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, saw bloody action in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolutionary Wars But now the privately owned museum and battleground is fighting for its own existence. The fort could be forced to shut down or sell off key artifacts.
Aug 14th, 2008 · The house in Fall River, Mass., where Lizzie Borden's parents were murdered with a hatchet in 1892 is now a museum and B&B. It is suing a rival museum dedicated to the alleged hatchet murderer, set to open 80 miles away in Salem.