The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art has announced its 2025 family festival commemorating Chuseok, known as Korean ...

The National Portrait Gallery, in collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Lil’ Libros, will host a free bilingual family festival with story times, music, dancing, crafts, scavenger ...

“We are deeply honored to celebrate this year’s exceptional honorees who have changed the narratives of American art,” said ...

The Zoo is hosting a WILD Halloween party: Boo at the Zoo, sponsored by Mars Wrigley Confectionery, is back Oct. 17, 18 and 19, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. As an added treat, Smithsonian’s National Zoo ...

The story of America unfolds through powerful exhibitions that illuminate the nation's past, present, and future.

As the keeper of memory for the nation, it is our privilege and responsibility to tell accurate and complete histories. As has been recently reported, in July, a placard was removed from the National ...

Note to editors: Selected high-resolution images for publication are available only through the museum’s Dropbox account. Email [email protected] to request the link. State fairs have sparked the ...

Recent reports about the Smithsonian removing the historic Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and a stool from the National Museum of American History and National Museum of African American ...

Join Sidedoor and travel around the Smithsonian to explore how facing the unknown brings us together at New Year’s.

They carried torches and marched at night. Their goal: defend free speech in America. What started as a small group of young men demonstrating during the 1860 election, snowballed into a mass movement ...

Envelope for tally sheet. 1864. Gift of Tadas Osmolskis. Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. Early approaches to voting by mail in the U.S. enabled military service members to participate in ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...