N.Y. Times Daniel Libeskind designed the new Contemporary Jewish Museum, which opened in San Francisco on Sunday. Lobby lights in the museum form four Hebrew letters that spell a word invoking paradise.

Look through the glass walls of a television studio at the Newseum — the much-heralded $450 million museum created by, for and about news acolytes, news reporters, newshounds, newsreaders, news watchers, newsmakers and news advocates that opens on Friday — and you get an imposing view of the Capitol. But that also means that from [...]

The Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation opened last weekend at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass. The 3,000-square-foot exhibition space in Berkshire County’s oldest museum is explicitly devoted to local innovators.

Curators at the Detroit Institute of Arts used research to find out how long visitors spend at each exhibit. Gathering data about visitors has never been as important, or as sophisticated, to museums as it is now. “A zillion other things are competing for our leisure time,” said Ford Bell, president and chief executive of [...]