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George Lucas and Mellody Hobson unveiled the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art to press and invited guests in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, with a public opening set for September 22. The five-story, MAD Architects-designed building cost a reported $1 billion and houses roughly 1,300 objects across 33 galleries totaling 100,000 square feet, spanning cave paintings to comics and Star Wars-related material.
Joe Macken, a truck driver from New York, spent over 20 years building an intricate scale model of the city from balsa wood and foam board in his basement, eventually creating more than 800,000 structures. After his daughter posted videos of the project on TikTok and they drew over 10 million views in a week, the Museum of the City of New York invited him to display it. The exhibit, titled 'He Built This City,' opened in February and runs through October 12.
UCLA researchers analyzed isotopic signatures in the tooth enamel of Thomas the T. rex, a well-preserved 66-million-year-old specimen from Montana, to estimate its internal body temperature. They calculated it at roughly 36.3 degrees Celsius, close to the 98.6-degree average for humans and comparable to elephants and large flightless birds like ostriches.
The Interim Computer Museum (ICM) has opened a web presence detailing its mission to preserve computing history through interactive, hands-on exhibits that combine vintage hardware with modern upgrades. The nonprofit operates as a 501(c)(3) charity working alongside SDF Public Access UNIX System, Inc., a 501(c)(7) membership organization, relying on memberships to fund events, remote access and artifact preservation.
Thieves broke into the Renoir Museum, the artist's former home on the French Riviera, and made off with two paintings valued at $10.5 million combined. The artworks remain missing, and investigators say the theft fits a pattern of recent high-profile art crimes targeting museums worldwide.
George Lucas's long-delayed Museum of Narrative Art has opened after being shopped to three different cities over 16 years and costing roughly $1 billion to build. Early reviews of the museum, which houses Lucas's personal collection of illustration and film art, are decidedly mixed.
Archiv is a newly launched app that lets users photograph mundane items—fire hydrants, furniture, food—and automatically arranges them into a stylized, gallery-like personal catalog. The tool blends photography and organization, giving users a portable, aesthetically curated record of objects they encounter.
The ZCOM computer museum in Hoyerswerda, Germany, may shut down by year's end after the municipal housing company withdrew its annual €110,000 subsidy. The city council is now deciding whether to continue funding the museum, which has drawn only about 10,000 of its targeted 20,000-25,000 annual visitors since reopening in 2017. Without a new backer, the foundation running ZCOM says it will have to close the institution.
The Zuse-Computer-Museum (ZCOM) in Hoyerswerda, Germany, held its last public opening days before a planned shutdown, with its trustee foundation confirming in July 2026 that the museum will close and its unique computing-history collection dismantled by year's end. Visitor numbers plunged to roughly 3,600 in two months, far below the 30,000 annual target set at its 2017 founding, leaving the institution unable to sustain itself financially.
A donor grant received in summer 2025 has enabled organizers to begin indexing the long-stored collection of the former Computer Museum of America and San Diego Computer Museum, which has sat in the basement of SDSU's Love Library for over two decades. The archive includes not just vintage computers and hardware but magazines, newsletters, software, books and manuals documenting the rise of the Information Age. Organizers are also launching fundraising and marketing efforts to raise awareness of the collection's existence and value.
Melissa Chiu, who has led the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., is stepping down to become director of New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She announced the move in April, describing it as her long-sought career goal. In a recent conversation with Fast Company, Chiu discussed how museums can play a role during periods of social and political tension.
In 1799, Italian physicist Alessandro Volta built a stack of alternating zinc and copper discs separated by brine-soaked paper, creating the first device to produce a steady electric current. His invention, later called the voltaic pile, was a direct rebuttal to fellow scientist Luigi Galvani's theory that dissected frog legs twitched due to an innate 'animal electricity' generated within living tissue. Volta argued instead that the electricity came from the contact between two different metals, with the frog's moist tissue merely acting as a conductor.