museum News

Why Art Thieves Are So Successful

Last month, administrators at the Boston Public Library discovered that a $600,000 engraving by Dürer and a $30,000 etching by Rembrandt had gone missing. It set off a media firestorm, the director of the museum resigned, and then … a …

AXA ART, Trident Insurance Partner to Offer Specialty Fine Art Coverages

Fine art insurance specialist AXA Art Americas Corporation (AXA ART) has formed a strategic business partnership with Trident Insurance Services, LLC, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., an international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products. The relationship …

School Children Fundraise to Fix Vandalized Ohio Museum

Months after an Ohio State University student trashed the Orton Geological Museum, an artist, a curator and elementary schoolchildren are helping to piece history back together. About 175 second- and third-grade gifted students from Hilliard elementary schools did chores, held …

Minnesota WWII Plane Museum Needs Fire Sprinklers

Members of a nonprofit Minnesota group that maintains a collection of World War II-era planes are scrambling to find money for fire sprinklers for the hangar that houses the vintage exhibit. Officials in South St. Paul have told the all-volunteer …