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The art museum in Florence was one of the first to use the social media platform, posting unusually irreverent videos that challenge its dignified reputation. LONDON -- Last month, the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThis year, three Washington-based museums of the Smithsonian Institution deployed a half-dozen four-feet-tall, humanoid robots, nicknamed Pepper, to answer visitors' questions and tell stories, using voice, gestures and an [...]

AMSTERDAM -- This museum is floating in outer space. In front of you, there is a line of stunning European old master paintings to observe and explore. Behind you is [...]

PARIS -- At the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, visitors can take a trip to an ice blue celestial plane surrounded by an aurora borealis. There, a branching [...]

By building the Google Arts & Culture platform for the web and as an app, Google has enabled museums from all over the world to digitize their art collections and [...]

Dreams of Dalí is a virtual reality experience designed for use online and at a museum. Created for ''Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination,'' an exhibition that ran from [...]

For many years, patrons were asked to turn off their cellphones when they entered a museum. Now, most institutions encourage visitors not only to leave their phones on but also [...]

On Wednesday at 4 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (10 a.m. in Amsterdam), a small band of invaders took control of the Instagram channel of the Stedelijk Museum, posting a 15-second [...]

The digital future continues to unfold at American art museums. The best recent innovations have been gathered in a new report, ''Next Practices in Digital and Technology,'' that the Association [...]

When the Tower of David Museum opened in Jerusalem's Old City in 1989, with video models, dioramas and even a rainbow-hued hologram among its offerings, its technology was considered cutting-edge. [...]

Museum apps, done well, can be the digital equivalent of a museum gift shop: a place for browsing beautiful things, mentally redecorating and aspiring to a higher-culture lifestyle. Some serve [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFor the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a turning point came in 2011. Down went the signs imploring visitors to stow their cellphones. The Met revamped its website, tailoring it [...]

The Smithsonian Institution has followed the crowdsourcing crowd, with the opening of an online transcription center allowing members of the public to help decipher thousands of digitized pages of Civil [...]

On a recent spring morning, some 90 minutes before the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened, Dave Krugman, a 26-year-old photo retoucher from Bushwick, Brooklyn, ushered six friends into its cavernous [...]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's company, Bloomberg LP, has long provided financial support to museums to help underwrite audio guides. Now his foundation is also getting into the act. Bloomberg Philanthropies [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Visitors to the Penn Museum might never see the red clay tablet. Little bigger than the palm of a hand, it sits on a metal cart in a [...]

Each summer for several years, a two-week seminar at the American Museum of Natural History has allowed 25 youngsters to use technology to resurrect a prehistoric marine animal by designing [...]

George Amato climbs a step and lifts the lid on a shiny stainless steel vessel that is basically a tall, portly thermos bottle. Clouds swirl off liquid nitrogen inside, making [...]

With news conferences in Chicago and Paris on Tuesday, Google announced the start of its expanded, technologically refined Google Art Project. This new program, the company said, ''goes global.'' The [...]

Joining its hometown industry and betting on the success of YouTube's new initiative to promote original content, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced that it would start [...]

APP Beyond Planet Earth PLATFORM iPhone and related devices PRICE Free APP Maurizio Cattelan: ''All,'' at the Guggenheim Museum PLATFORM iPhone and related devices; Android PRICE $3.99 New York's museums [...]

New York's oldest museum becomes its newest on Nov. 11, when the New-York Historical Society reveals its three-year, $65 million renovation -- and young people will have a new home [...]

The Museum of Modern Art's ''Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects'' is one of the smartest design shows in years -- by which I mean [...]

SHELLEY BERNSTEIN lives with her computer. Most days she hunkers down in her spartan office at the Brooklyn Museum where, as chief technology officer, she invents ways to keep people [...]

ON your next museum visit, you might want to skip the information kiosk and seek out a Wi-Fi hot spot instead. Increasingly, museums are using smartphone apps to give visitors [...]

MINOOKA, Ill. JOHN FIGARELLI pulls into the parking spot under a ''No Trespassing'' sign, pops out of his '94 Ford Aerostar van and apologizes. ''Sorry I'm late,'' says the gravelly [...]

As Thomas P. Campbell begins his third year at the helm of the cultural ocean liner known as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he hears fewer comparisons between himself and [...]

For decades photographers like Berenice Abbott and Samuel H. Gottscho captured New York City -- its streets and neighborhoods, landmark buildings and bridges, famous haunts and hangouts. And for decades [...]

Organizers have announced that 139 art galleries worldwide will participate in the V.I.P. Art Fair, an online-only fair, from Jan. 22 to 30. Each gallery will be able to show [...]

Ab Ex now has its own app. In conjunction with its ''Abstract Expressionist New York'' exhibition, the grand tour through the Museum of Modern Art's holdings of (mostly) New York [...]

Walk into a crowded museum, and what do you see? People with cameras or cellphones snapping pictures of people looking at objects. The artwork, document or fossil is a tourist [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED GINA QUINONES walked gingerly into a room at the Cloisters on a May afternoon and gasped in delight upon seeing the famed Merode Altarpiece, a vivid 15th-century triptych [...]

Summer on the Metropolitan Museum's roof has typically meant circling a pedestal or two before moving on to cocktails and the view. But with ''Big Bambu,'' a walk-in/walk-on, site-specific, thoroughly [...]

SAN FRANCISCO THE San Francisco Museum of Modern Art formally celebrated its 75th anniversary on Jan. 18 with an eye to attracting millennial generation multitaskers. The event included handing out [...]

HAND-HELD computers have many uses -- but who would have thought they could take art home from a museum? That is just what is happening at the current Biennial exhibition […]

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which has been aggressively expanding its global network of museums, is planning to open a typically ambitious outpost on a new frontier: cyberspace. In an […]

The Intel Corporation has contributed $6 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art to stage its mammoth overview of 20th century art and culture, which is scheduled to open […]

In a drive against the booming trade in stolen art, world cultural groups, police agencies and insurance experts are drafting a simple new standard to help track lost masterworks and […]

The Guggenheim Museum SoHo is back, all teched out and ready for the art of the 21st century. After a five-month renovation, the museum has reopened with 'Media scape,' an […]

HONG KONG -- Art Basel in Hong Kong highlighted many of Asia's top artists last year, but none had more visibility than Cao Fei. Her old-school, video game-inspired installation, ''Same [...]

FOR Edwin Robles, a 37-year-old Hartford police officer, the boarded-up, decaying Victorian brick house in the Frog Hollow neighborhood is a dream come true. 'It's appealing to me because I […]