At the urging of activists and students, the Penn Museum vowed to repatriate the stolen skulls of enslaved people in its Morton Collection.

Mississippi returned the stolen remains of Chickasaw people as part of the largest return of stolen Native American antiquities in the state’s history.

Enslaved.org, the first online slavery database which houses millions of records related to more than 600,000 enslaved people and their descendants, emancipation activists, and enslavers, received a $1.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The Louvre is digitizing the depths of its collection, uploading 482,000 artworks from different curatorial departments, with new uploads every day.

A survey by the American Alliance of Museums found that museum workers, especially BIPOC, have suffered “a grave toll on their mental health and wellbeing” due to the pandemic.

Activists convened near MoMA to stage the first in-person protest of their “10 Weeks of Art, Action, and Conversation.”

A leaked email from MoMA director Glenn Lowry reveals internal conversations about the “Strike MoMA” campaign, accusing the activists of attempting to “‘[disassemble]’ MoMA and all museums so they no longer exist.”

A Google Doodle on April 13 celebrated the Metropolitan Museum’s 151st anniversary.

After facing backlash online and from the Cambodian Ministry of Culture, VICE removed edited photos of Cambodian genocide victims who were altered to appear smiling.

The first-ever exhibition of Israeli artists in the United Arab Emirates faces calls for boycott by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.