Laid out like an orchestra in a quiet gallery room, 40 colorful gems have one of the planet’s most distinguished conductors: ...

“She’d lost 20, and several others had decayed down to the root stubs,” says Douglas Owsley, the head of physical anthropology at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, whose ...

Don’t get me wrong, The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is a fantastic museum. For those of us who grew up ...

On Washington's National Mall, in a vast neoclassical palace next to the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian National ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are free to visit, but fees do apply for the Butterfly Pavilion ...

Diana is what’s known as a “fossil preparator,” working in full view of the public inside the oblong, glass-enclosed FossiLab at D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...