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Museum

Medical oddities at the Mütter Museum | illustration: lex villlena; source images

Museum

A Strange Museum Takes a Strange Turn

Attempts to limit access to the Mütter Museum’s collection of medical oddities disrespect the living and the dead.

Stephen Wahrhaftig | 7.10.2023 1:00 PM

St.-John-Paul-II-National-Shrine- | Photo, right: Saint John Paul II National Shrine; ehpien/Creative Commons

Museum

Review: National Shrine Celebrates St. John Paul II as a Freedom Fighter

Too few remember the pope's opposition to Polish building regulation.

Christian Britschgi | 5.19.2023 6:30 AM

With federal spending and the debt limit shaping up to be the pivotal political fights of the next two years, federal handouts for tourist-trap museums could be an unexpectedly telling battleground. | Illustration: Lex Villena

Government Spending

Ridiculous Spending on Museums May Be Here To Stay

Handouts for tourist-trap museums will be part of the federal funding battleground in the next two years.

David Ditch | 3.10.2023 11:30 AM

African American men sitting on benches in a photograph in Great Britain | Vanley Burke, Young Men on See-Saw, Handsworth Park, Birmingham, 1984, printed 2021, gelatin silver print, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2022.112.1

Art

Photos Show the Transformation of Great Britain

A new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art displays how the U.K. changed in the 1970s and '80s.

Christine Hall | 2.11.2023 8:00 AM

minismuseum | Planet Word Museum

Museum

Review: D.C.'s Planet Word Museum Celebrates Language

Libertarians should recognize language as a quintessential example of spontaneous order.

Stephanie Slade | 12.30.2022 6:00 AM

thumbnail (6) | Karol Kozlowski/agefotostock/Newscom; Illustration: Lex Villena

Social Justice

Steam Engines Are Perpetuating Racism, Apparently

The National Museum of Wales is suggesting that 19th-century innovations that enabled economic development are somehow tainted by slavery.

Liz Wolfe | 3.17.2022 1:00 PM

minisstartrekVI | <em>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country</em>/Paramount Pictures

Reviews

The Best of Cold War Culture

Books, films, and more related to the dissolution of the Soviet Union

Peter Suderman, Fiona Harrigan, Jesse Walker, Christian Britschgi, Stephanie Slade, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Ronald Bailey | 11.5.2021 6:00 AM

20191111 NEFERTITI SCAN RENDER BY COSMO WENMAN_003 | Cosmo Wenman

Copyright

A German Museum Tried To Hide This Stunning 3D Scan of an Iconic Egyptian Artifact. Today You Can See It for the First Time

After a three-year freedom of information campaign, everyone can finally see the Egyptian Museum of Berlin’s official scan of the Bust of Nefertiti.

Cosmo Wenman | 11.13.2019 1:30 PM

minismuseumofsex | Gina Coleman/Weedmaps

Museum

Museum of Weed

Zach Weissmueller | 10.18.2019 6:30 AM

miniscivilwarmuseum_credmueum | American Civil War Museum

Museum

American Civil War Museum

Ronald Bailey | 10.12.2019 6:00 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Then They Came for the Museums

Charles Oliver | 5.3.2019 4:00 AM

National Parks

Stop Pretending the Smithsonian, National Park Closures Are a Crisis

Yes, the government shutdown is to blame. No, it's not that big of a deal.

Joe Setyon | 1.2.2019 2:30 PM

Civil Liberties

The Signs and Wonders of Jesse Howard

Jesse Walker | 6.11.2010 6:27 PM

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