In early 1944, Marie Boudet received a coconut in her mailbox—a love letter—from her husband Raymond, a Navy Seabee who was stationed in Hawaiʻi during World War II. The back of the unusual love ...

This summer, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will unveil its permanent collection galleries with a landmark presentation, “Design Across Time: Exploring the Smithsonian’s Design Collection.” ...

Visitors can celebrate elephants, culture and conservation during EleFest, a three-day festival at the Smithsonian’s National ...

In recognition of World Agriculture Day Thursday, June 11, the Smithsonian Science Education Center has released two new free educational resources for youth. The Smithsonian Science for Global Goals’ ...

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963 by Rowland Scherman. Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) will present ...

The Diker Pavilion for Native Arts and Cultures; Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian. Visit NY MTA for maps and service updates for ...

The United States has been shaped by aspirational ideals, often shared but sometimes in conflict and contested since its founding. Much of who we are as a nation continues to be informed by the ...

Learn about Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson (1916–2005) and how environmental disasters of his day inspired the creation of Earth Day in 1970. On December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts captured a now ...

Join the Smithsonian in commemorating National Pride Month with events, articles, and podcast episodes that tell a diversity of Pride stories. The first Pride parades marked the anniversary of the ...

The Smithsonian welcomes group visits. Most museums are located along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., six others and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are nearby, and two are in New York City.

Explore a selection of dinosaur fossils and related artifacts in the National Museum of Natural History's collections. Learn the story of O.C. Marsh and how his unquenchable thirst for fossils ...

The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...