Visitors dressed as Star Wars characters attending the National Air and Space Museum’s annual Air & Scare event. It returns ...

As a deadly fungal disease ravages wild frog populations around the globe, scientists have identified potential locations in ...

Kirk Johnson announced today that he will step down as the Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

Participants of the Teacher Innovator Institute learning and doing activities in the GE Aerospace Classrooms within the ...

Johnson (1940–2021) was a scholarly collector, antitrust attorney, autism advocate and resident of Washington, D.C., for ...

The story of Oiwa, the faithful wife who returned as a ghost to haunt her murderous husband, was told in the 1825 kabuki ...

In the Chinese zodiac 2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon. The Chinese Lunar New Year begins February 10, 2024, and starts the 15-day Spring Festival that concludes with the Lantern Festival. The ...

The National Museum of American History will commemorate the 250th anniversary the Gunboat Philadelphia’s sinking at the Battle of Valcour Island with a special opportunity to go behind the scenes, ...

The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...

Many of ground-breaking photographer Gertrude Käsebier's portrait subjects were working and traveling with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody’s Wild West shows, at the turn of the 20th century. She ...

On Monday, Oct. 5, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives will host an exclusive look at its newest exhibition, “American Stories.” Rarely on view, this collection of over 40 artists’ books, or works of ...

Exhibition of More Than 120 Works Explores the Evolution of Photographic Portraiture and Its Role as a Lens Into American ...