Philadelphia Museum of Art

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania man will spend exactly one day in jail after admitting to stealing historic artifacts from more than a dozen museums in at least four states. Montgomery County's Thomas Gavin busted into museums along the US East Coast in the 1960s and '70s, taking mostly antique firearms,...

(Newser) - Police are looking for a convertible seen driving down the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps made famous in the movie Rocky. Several people posted online videos showing the car driving down the steps in fits and starts around midnight yesterday. The car then speeds off. Police say they plan to...

(Newser) - American museums are facing a shift in leadership, Newsweek reports, with 20 of the most prominent fine-art institutions—including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art—in search of directors. A "generational shift" has left institutions seeking specific qualifications: "Ideally...