At the centre of Perth’s £27 million new museum – repurposing its overbearing Edwardian city hall, with four bully-boy putti galumphing above a classical façade – there is a curatorial conundrum that ...

Conservators at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland made a surprising discovery when they cracked open the coffin of a nearly 3,000-year-old mummy for the first time in a century. Decorating ...

The unicorn may be a mythical beast, but centuries’ worth of art and literature have made it quite real. An endless parade of Medieval tapestries, ancient Greek texts, Renaissance paintings, ...

The Perth Museum has teamed up with a forensics expert to allow museumgoers to see the faces of the unreachable past like never before. However, they weren't expecting to find a Black Kushite princess ...

The Stone of Destiny remained within Perth Museum during the exhibition’s three-month closure following an attack on the artefact’s glass case. The free prized attraction reopened to the public on ...

Perth’s landmark museum - home of the Stone of Destiny – is once again in the running one of the most prestigious cultural prizes. It is one of five finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025, ...

After an absence of 728 years, the Stone of Scone – aka the Stone of Destiny – has been returned to Perthshire, said Alastair Sooke in The Telegraph. It may not look like much, but for many centuries, ...

A man has been arrested after glass protecting the Stone of Destiny was broken in an incident at Perth Museum. Visitors said that a man wearing a kilt attempted to smash through the stone's display ...

Vanessa Russ is a former Associate Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology and is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at UWA. Jason M. Gibson has received research funding from the Australian ...