The Smithsonian Folklife Marketplace returns to the National Mall Tuesday, June 16, reopening inside the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building as part of the Smithsonian’ ...

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

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will host a press preview of the new exhibition “From These Lands: Sharing Our Natural and Cultural Heritage” Tuesday, J ...

The Anacostia Community Museum will host its largest-ever Juneteenth Freedom Celebration, Friday, June 19, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The free, full-day event, “Power in the Past, Stren ...

In the pendant surrounding the Hope Diamond are 16 white diamonds, both pear-shapes and cushion cuts. A bail is soldered to the pendant where Mrs. McLean would often attach other diamonds including ...

Discover women writers who have made a mark on American history and culture. Learn about Phillis Wheatly, who in 1773 was the first African American to have a book published. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ...

For nearly 250 years, Americans have been inspired by the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence. American Aspirations brings together for the first time more than 30 of Smithsonian’s ...

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 ...

Dynamic rotating exhibitions explore various aspects of urban community life, including modernization, cultural encounters, environmental change, gentrification, employment, and globalization.

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 ...

Methods of Disease Transmission. There are many insects that are the primary or intermediate hosts or carriers of human diseases. Pathogens that are capable of being transmitted by insects include ...

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 ...