The story of Oiwa, the faithful wife who returned as a ghost to haunt her murderous husband, was told in the 1825 kabuki ...

Visitors dressed as Star Wars characters attending the National Air and Space Museum’s annual Air & Scare event. It returns ...

The National Museum of American History will commemorate the 250th anniversary the Gunboat Philadelphia’s sinking at the Battle of Valcour Island with a special opportunity to go behind the scenes, ...

Participants of the Teacher Innovator Institute learning and doing activities in the GE Aerospace Classrooms within the ...

In the Chinese zodiac 2024 is the Year of the Wood Dragon. The Chinese Lunar New Year begins February 10, 2024, and starts the 15-day Spring Festival that concludes with the Lantern Festival. The ...

On Monday, Oct. 5, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives will host an exclusive look at its newest exhibition, “American Stories.” Rarely on view, this collection of over 40 artists’ books, or works of ...

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 ...

Many of ground-breaking photographer Gertrude Käsebier's portrait subjects were working and traveling with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody’s Wild West shows, at the turn of the 20th century. She ...

Right image: Dr. Brandie Smith, the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has spent decades working to save wildlife, including the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has begun construction on the Bezos Learning Center building located at the east end of the museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

A’Lelia Bundles, Great-Great-Granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, Among Featured Speakers ...

Exhibition of More Than 120 Works Explores the Evolution of Photographic Portraiture and Its Role as a Lens Into American ...