A competition for the best museum-label writing? Who knew? Obviously, museum professionals know about it. Each year since 2009, the American Alliance of Museums has sponsored an Excellence in ...

Naming the wrongs of the past is hard, especially when the wrongs have not yet been entirely righted, but it’s crucial. An empty pedestal of a seized looted artifact at the Rubin Museum of Art in New ...

One man’s butt imprint on a subway seat is another man’s… art? A mysterious art duo is placing exhibition labels on ordinary and downright dreary scenes in subway stations in an attempt to get people ...

The brightly colored labels on apple boxes were strictly utilitarian. For more than a half-century, labels depicting bucolic vistas of Northwest orchards, children with cherubic faces, attractive ...

This guide to writing interpretive exhibit labels is updated to include new voices, current scholarship and the unique issues the museum field is grappling with in the 21st century. This edition is ...

Five notebooks packed with more than 1,000 colorful salmon can labels were acquired by the Anacortes Museum recently through the generosity of collector Carl Wedlund and the Anacortes Museum ...