More than 140 corals, taken from the Torres Strait Islands have been returned to Australia after more than a century in the ...

This year, the Institution’s museums are bringing to the public everything from the flair of state fairs to the artwork of ...

Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum ...

Better known as becoming the first Native American woman to receive a medical degree, Susan La Flesche, along with her sister Rosalie, made significant contributions to the anthropological study and ...

The Parrish Art Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of seven distinguished leaders to its Board of Trustees: ...

Celebrate the many 2024 Smithsonian science achievements with a beautiful image of the crab nebula. Nebulas are giant clouds of dust and gas, often forming after a massive star explodes (what ...

Photo: Sean Fennessy As the art world gears up for the spring season, Observer has scoured the programs of the most prestigious museums worldwide to compile a list of must-see museum exhibitions ...

Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a species of fossilised dung named after ...

A large crowd watching a lion dancer perform in front of the museum during the 2024 Lunar New Year Festival. Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sonia Winner, president and CEO of the Cleveland Natural History Museum, discusses the museum’s $150 million transformation and the new immersive and interactive features the newly designed ...

Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice has culminated in a new, major Smithsonian Institution exhibition at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is one step closer to becoming the only museum within the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to the stories of Jewish Americans. On Wednesday ...