The Smithsonian is coming to the Nye Museum. Museum Executive Director Amy Johnson spoke about the traveling exhibition “Voices & Votes: Democracy in America” during a Select Board meeting on ...
The Smithsonian Institution’s 19 museums located in D.C. officially shut their doors to visitors following the federal ...
The institution’s 21 museums, zoo, and research centers are shuttered indefinitely as Congress remains in a stalemate over funding. Closed signage outside the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space ...
A fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton excavated from Angola’s costal cliffs. Credit Hillsman S. Jackson, Southern Methodist University. The story of prehistoric ocean life that emerged in the ...
The Smithsonian’s collections speak to the resolve and ingenuity of America’s service members A chess set used during the Civil War by Union commander George B. McClellan helps Smithsonian visitors ...
Artist Amy Sherald made headlines in 2018 when her official portrait of then-first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. She made headlines again this summer ...
Agayuliyararput (Our Way of Making Prayer): The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks (Exhibition) (1997: New York, N.Y.) Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.) Amber: ...