The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

Reviewers on TripAdvisor call it “cool” and “disturbing.” Dinglefielder remarks it as “fascinating nightmare.” Journalist Michael Turtle writes, “But even with the warm rays streaming in through the ...

A rendering of the New Museum expansion. Courtesy of OMA/bloomimages.de Set to reopen in fall 2025 following a highly anticipated OMA-designed building expansion in collaboration with Cooper Robertson ...

From the time a prehistoric ancestor harnessed fire, pulled a lump of charcoal from the smoldering ashes, and etched primitive figures on the wall, art has been tied to technology and the question of ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

After a two-year ethical review and a leadership shakeup in April, the Mütter Museum has committed to continuing its display of human remains with a new focus on giving visitors deeper context into ...

New York City’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) announced recently that it plans to remove human remains from its displays, vowing to amend policies after a new report questioned the ...