A large canvas tent that served as George Washington's home and command center during the Revolutionary War is being duplicated down to the finest stitch and will serve as an educational tool and ambassador for a new museum coming to Philadelphia's historic district.

Her eyes see nothing, but when Barbara Appel runs her fingers over the face of a Picasso sculpture in New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), she sighs with pleasure.

For residents in Baoji, Shaanxi province, also known as “the hometown of bronze ware,” protecting historical treasures is one way to safeguard their homeland. At least, that is what they want to express through a compelling exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing.

On an April evening nearly 44 years ago, just days after Easter Sunday, someone slipped into a museum in this central Florida town and stole 15 paintings, one portraying the resurrected Jesus and 14 depicting the Stations of the Cross.

An eccentric Australian mining magnate who is building a replica of the ill-fated Titanic on Saturday unveiled his latest scheme — a park of giant robotic dinosaurs.

Wrists bent and fingers curled, the immaculately dressed dancers perform a series of gestures that, according to ancient custom, carry the wishes of the Khmer kings to the heavens.

The director of China's biggest box-office hit says “Lost in Thailand” succeeded by showing a rarely seen subject: modern Chinese life.

Fleeing from a burning, volcanic cloud, the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum had little time to pack, snatching a lamp, some cash or the house key as they tried to run to safety.

Tens of thousands of photographs and negatives from a large collection of Hollywood images will be sold during a two-day auction in New York next month, Guernsey's auction house said on Monday.

The National Palace Museum (NPM) was unable to find five accessories belonging to antiques during an inventory check that it completed in 2012, its director said yesterday, but added that the losses do not decrease the value of the antiques themselves.