A crystal-covered chair inspired by one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings was seriously damaged when a tourist sat on it while posing for a photograph, according to the Italian museum where ...

An Italian museum has called on patrons to "respect art" after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of ...

Newly released footage showed a tourist destroying a piece of art in an Italian museum by sitting on it before fleeing the scene. Last week, the Palazzo Maffei — a museum located in Verona ...

Trump launched an attack on the museum -- often referred to as the “Blacksonian” -- in late March after signing an executive order. The exhibit features sections of the original lunch counter ...

For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is ...

The ultimate nightmare for any museum.” Initially, the museum was concerned that the chair would be unfixable because of its delicate design, but restorers did an “outstanding job,” Carlon said.

In this case, the original owner is the Greensboro Museum, which was built inside the F.W. Woolworth where the sit-ins took place in 1960. Swaine said the museum hasn't been notified of any changes.

The facility is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex. The Charlotte ...