In the end, a group led by congressman and former president John Quincy Adams ensured Smithson’s vision was realized. Adams felt that the country was failing to live up to its early promise. He ...

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

Lula “Mae” Reeves, one of the first Black women in Philly to own her own business, created one-of-a-kind and custom hats for ...

The museum's assistant curator says the exhibitions change every four months, so the public should stop by several times a ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” a ...

London Museum has received £20m and more than 14,000 Roman artefacts from a US charitable organisation. The gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies is the largest private donation and largest archive ...

Ellen and Joe Checota are making $5 million challenge gifts to Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. The gifts are designed to increase the ...

We are thrilled to announce that Crossroads Gift Shop has been named Best Gift Store in the Hudson Valley in the 2024 Daily Voice Readers' Choice Awards! According to its website, Crossroads Gift Shop ...

James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution Imagine peering ... For Scott Lakeram, a paleobiology fellow at the National Museum of Natural History, coal balls are time capsules ripe with insights ...

Read more in The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women's Liberation, which is available from Smithsonian Books. Visit Smithsonian Books’ website to learn more about its publications ...

Now, her work will join the permanent collection of the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, as part of a landmark gift of approximately 100 modern and contemporary Haitian artworks ...