Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced today he will retire from his position, ...

Puryear will receive an Archives of American Art Medal, Temkin will receive the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly ...

Today, the Smithsonian Board of Regents designated the Arts and Industries Building (AIB) as the permanent site of the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s giant panda, Qing Bao (ching-BOW), will celebrate her 5th birthday Sept. 12 with a specially tailored fruitsicle cake. At 9 a.m., ...

Each month of the school year, the museum will release a collection of videos focused on a specific topic. Every collection ...

For the second year, Smithsonian Craft2Wear will take place at the historic Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building on the ...

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 ...

National Museum of American History will host the Kronos Quartet as part of its commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History ...

Smithsonian Visitor Center, Enid A. Haupt Garden. There is no public parking facility for Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. A limited number of city-operated metered parking spaces are ...

It might not be buried but learning about Smithsonian history is a treasure. Explore your favorite museums in a fun new way—from the outside with Adventure Lab®! We’ve created these touchless ...

The National Museum of the American Latino honors the dreams, challenges, and triumphs of U.S. Latinos, elevating these ...

The National Numismatic Collection is comprised of approximately 1.6 million objects and is thought to be the largest collection of money and transactional objects in the world. Its diverse holdings ...