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'Genocide, baby killers': Holocaust survivor, rather than harassers, kicked out of Madrid museum

The women, who were wearing Stars of David and carrying an Israeli flag, were expelled from the Reina Sofía National Museum of Art in Madrid on Sunday for "disturbing visitors."

A view of the skyline of Madrid, Spain January 5, 2026.
London, England, General view of the British Museum with visitors, Bloomsbury, March 2025.

British Museum removes the term Palestine from certain Middle East exhibits

The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, set for sale and likely demolition, houses murals by multiple Jewish artists.

Activists urge Jewish Museum to help preserve Wilbur J. Cohen Building at risk of demolition

 The main entrance to the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II.

Holocaust education: Why telling Lithuania’s Jewish story matters more than ever - opinion


Six Roman-era statues stolen from Damascus museum reopened after Assad's ouster

Six Roman-era statues were stolen from Syria’s National Museum in Damascus, prompting a security probe and closure of the historic institution.

People visit the National Museum of Damascus after it reopened, a month after the ousting os Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, January 9, 2025

Museum curator made a habit of monitoring flashes on the moon

Daichi Fujii has logged about 60 impacts on the Moon since 2011, giving astronomers fresh data on asteroid strike rates.

The surface of the moon.

Netherlands to return 3,500-year-old Egyptian statue seized in Maastricht

Prime minister Rutte told president el-Sisi that the artifact, looted amid the 2011 Arab Spring, will be handed to the Egyptian ambassador in the Netherlands before year’s end.

The Grand Egyptian Museum.

Sleeping Cupid marble sculpture discovered in Pula Roman domus on future boutique hotel site

Darko Komšo: "the second century masterpiece will be laser cleaned and then join the permanent display of the Archaeological Museum of Istria".

Cupid Sculpture. Illustration.

Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum storage four days before Louvre jewel heist

The break-in occurred around 3:30 a.m. on 15 October, when one or more intruders slipped into the museum’s 9,000-square-meter warehouse outside downtown Oakland.

Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum storage four days before Louvre jewel heist.

Grand Egyptian Museum opens as world's largest archaeological museum

The 1.2 billion dollar project, backed by Japanese loans, unites over 5,000 treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb under one roof for the first time since 1922.

Grand Egyptian Museum

Egypt opens colossal new antiquities museum after two-decade wait

By opening the museum, Egypt was "writing a new chapter in the story of this ancient nation's present and future," Sisi said at the opening.

Tourists look at Pharaonic statues displayed at the Grand Staircase of the Grand Egyptian Museum during a partial trial in Giza, Egypt, October 15, 2024.

Son of Egyptian worker claims his father, not Carter, found Tutankhamun’s tomb

The 84-year-old Luxor man said his father, Hussein Abdel-Rasoul, was 12 when he pointed British archaeologist Howard Carter to a tilted stone on Luxor’s West Bank in Nov 1922.

Ancient sculpture of the Sphinx at the Cairo Museum.

Lost letter of Emperor Caracalla Found — Burdur Museum Rushes to Save 1,800-Year-Old Stones

Following a demolition order, the Burdur Museum Directorate is retrieving ten slabs reused in the 1950s from the ancient city of Takina to safeguard them as cultural heritage.

The Ancient Roman written Stone. Illustration.

ANU Museum to host Aliyah Day celebration for immigrants

Multi-language event on Wednesday hopes to create a sense of belonging among new and veteran olim amid ongoing national challenges.

 THE ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Ramat Aviv.