It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

This left a gap in the fossil record, but Petrified Forest National Park didn’t get its name for nothing: The volcanic ash that burst from California’s Mojave Desert ended up in northeast Arizona’s ...

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Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...

When President Trump signed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law, he also set aside $85 million for a Congress-authorized heist ...

Four Smithsonian museums on the National Mall remained closed Tuesday as crews worked to resolve heating, ventilation and air ...

A growing movement is fighting to keep Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian, warning that a proposed move to Houston ...

Artists are nominated by a Smithsonian research staff member and then selected by a panel of Smithsonian art curators and representatives from the science, history and culture communities. More than ...

A handful of Smithsonian museums are closed again Tuesday because of HVAC problems, leaving some tourists in D.C.

The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from ...

The Hirshhorn, the Asian Art and African Art museums, and the National Museum of the American Indian had to close on Sunday.

The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...