Four members of the delegation sent from Easter Islands spent the night at the Oslo museum as part of a ritual ceremony to ...

Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during ...

Robert Frost famously wrote, “Nothing gold can stay.” A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, which is dedicated ...

Reenactors portraying President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill — each sporting their ...

Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, a main entry point into the United States was closed as immigration station, detention center.

The closing of the U.S. busiest immigrant processing station, the crowning of a new emperor in Japan and the birthday of the “Godfather of Grunge.” ...

The Park Service described a typical day at the immigration station: “Immigrants came face to face with inspectors, interpreters, nurses, doctors, social workers, and many others. As a large federal ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

Icons of American liberty and freedom, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island have long been a mainstay of the New York skyline and its history. Stretching back to the Dutch colonial settlement in the ...

Discover the places in New York City! Our list explores top tourist attractions like Times Square and the Statue of Liberty, ...

Enjoy special priority boarding for the ferry, and then cruise over to Liberty Island before most of the crowds arrive. After visiting the Statue of Liberty Museum, continue to neighboring Ellis ...