Visitors view the Star Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History National Museum of American ...

Efforts to place a Smithsonian museum on the Mall collapsed this week after Republican lawmakers inserted language about ...

Republicans wanted to narrow the scope of the Women’s History Museum and give the president power over its location. The attempt failed.

The Smithsonian has changed or eliminated some interpretive language that typically accompanies exhibited artworks. Critics ...

Featuring iconic and everyday items, including a Revolutionary War gunboat and a first-generation iPod, “In Pursuit of Life, ...

The legislation to build a Smithsonian museum to honor women became contentious after it was amended to say the museum could ...

Explore the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s new exhibit, “In Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness,” featuring 250 artifacts that tell the story of America’s 250-year journey. The ...

Approximately 148 million: That’s the number of specimens – including plants, animals, minerals and human artifacts – curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

We are two months away from the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence—a paramount event worthy of celebration. Sadly, the Smithsonian Institution is reluctant to honor ...

Electron microscope image of the entire telson (stinger) of the Tanzanian red bark scorpion (Babycurus Jacksoni). Image includes the telson vesicle, which contains two venom-producing glands. Muscles ...

The Augmented Exhibition,” produced by Histovery and presented by The Army Historical Foundation at the National Museum of ...

As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, the Smithsonian will reopen two of its most iconic and historic buildings, ...