Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. African artifacts shown in museums worldwide are often not borrowed, but stolen — and TED Fellow Jim Chuchu is […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Museums are vessels of memory, knowledge, inspiration and dreams. Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, makes the case […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. While on lockdown, the galleries of Singapore's iconic ArtScience Museum were empty — but online, the museum was abuzz. […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Sometimes, small things make a huge impact. After studying how bees in urban environments can survive by navigating small […]
Who deserves to be in a museum? For too long, the answer has been "the extraordinary" — those aspirational historymakers who inspire us with their successes. But those stories are limiting, says museum curator Ariana […]
Are you looking closely? Visual educator Amy Herman explains how to use art to enhance your powers of perception and find connections where they may not be apparent. Learn the techniques Herman uses to train […]
Archaeologist and curator Chip Colwell collects artifacts for his museum, but he also returns them to where they came from. In a thought-provoking talk, he shares how some museums are confronting their legacies of stealing […]
Craft curator Nora Atkinson takes us on a trip to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to see the beautifully designed and participatory art of Burning Man, revealing how she discovered there what's often missing from museums: […]
Digital archaeologist Chance Coughenour is using pictures — your pictures — to reclaim antiquities that have been lost to conflict and disaster. After crowdsourcing photographs of destroyed monuments, museums and artifacts, Coughenour uses advanced technology […]
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