The world's most visited museum was closed on Monday after employees complained they were harassed by tourists waiting to see the Mona Lisa.

The American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania has gifted it to a local group in Cork and hopes his bequest will help them create a “living museum” to the tragedy.

This would follow on the success of The Rising commemorations and other events which had marked women's place in Irish history.

Plans for a U2 museum in Dublin's docklands have been sent back to the drawing board.

Ireland, mid-1960s, poster art in tourism went into a decline.

Planning permission is to be sought for a rugby museum in Limerick, backed by JP McManus and Paul O’Connell.

A Leonardo da Vinci painting of Christ that sold in New York for a record $450m (€380m) is heading to a museum in the United Arab Emirates.

A rare gold replica of the lunar space module has been stolen from the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Ohio.

It’s usually premium brands that attract the most fervent fan bases, but one lifelong family of car addicts has set up its own museum in Germany for a very unusual collection indeed.

"After years shrouded in darkness, they can now shine again."

A 17-year-old messer managed to fool visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art earlier this week into thinking a pair of glasses placed on the ground were a work of art.

A long-awaited Michael Collins Museum in his native West Cork is expected to open to the public next month.

Armed bandits have stolen 17 paintings, including works by Tintoretto, Rubens and Mantegna, from Verona’s art museum.

Artefacts from some of the worst terrorist attacks in US history are going on display for the first time in Washington.

A museum dedicated to Jack the Ripper in London has provoked anger, because it was originally intended to celebrate women's history.

The crane was eventually towed away.

One of the two gunmen who killed 19 tourists and others at a Tunisian museum was known to intelligence services, the country’s prime minister said today.

Islamic State (IS) militants have “bulldozed” the renowned archaeological site of the ancient city of Nimrud near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul using heavy military vehicles, the government said.

Shortly before Anne Frank and her family went into hiding from the Nazis, she gave some of her toys to a non-Jewish neighbourhood girlfriend for safekeeping.