A new anthology captures debates on the politics of storage.

Mattel and the Museum of Modern Art have entered a sweeping five-year global partnership—and their first collaborative collection dropped earlier this month. The debut lineup includes seven ...

This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums Jack Tamisiea A small fraction of the more than 50 million specimens housed in ...

The Museum has over 23 million specimens stored in alcohol in the spirit collection. Preserving specimens in alcohol is not a new technique. The Museum's earliest wet collections date from the early ...

The economic benefit of digitising an entire museum collection has been quantified for the first time. Research has found that digitising the Museum's 80 million objects would contribute to ...