The Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B.C., has announced it has acquired a watercolour painting from renowned B.C. artist Emily ...

Jenny had been born in Changi, a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Singapore. There, she and her mother, Daphne, stayed in a ...

The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will display a sword gifted by Major General Marquis de ...

The former Second World War RAF air base near York, Yorkshire Air Museum, has fired up the iconic British bomber engine The ...

Discover the true story of Charles Hare, the 19th-century midshipman who used a French officer's uniform to pull off a daring prison break ...

At the British Museum, similar cardboard-and-fabric figures ... during the Anglo-Asante war of 1895-96. “How did a medieval English ewer end up as an object of veneration in the Asante ...

The USS Constitution was launched on Oct. 21, 1797, in Boston on this day in history. She went on to a legendary career in ...

The British Council is using a £1.8 million grant to help prevent the pillaging of Sudan’s national museums during its ...

Named King of the Blue Ocean–or KOBO for short–this rare blue whale skeleton has been on display at the museum since 2000. It ...

The museum already owns a subsequent, oil-on-canvas work depicting the same subject; both versions of “War Canoes, Alert Bay” ...

Private George Alister Walker Ewan of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders died after being wounded in action in June 1944.

In 1924, historians and museum curators banded together to bury a time capsule inside the Liberty Memorial, to be opened in 100 years. The items celebrated victory in World War I and provided a ...