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

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 ...

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Air and Space Museum’s building on the National Mall, the Museum and Smithsonian Theaters are hosting the National Air and Space Museum 50th ...

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

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 rare eighteenth-century portrait of Spanish military leader Bernardo de Gálvez (1746–1786) by Cuban painter José Nicolás de Escalera.

A crowning installation in the garden, recently revitalized by artist-architect Hiroshi Sugimoto and due to reopen Oct. 31, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) broke ...

The 2026 “Power of Giving” symposium will reflect upon 250 years of American philanthropy and how it continues to shape and reshape the nation. National Museum of American History’s Warner Bros.

Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum brings together, for the first time, ...

In 1878, the Lewis family (descendants of George Washington’s nephew, Lawrence Lewis, and Nelly Custis Lewis) sold the candle ...