The National Gallery of Art pairs art and science in a survey of some of the finest Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

The Archive Center at the National Museum of the American Indian presents a new exhibition that can help "interrupt the ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

It also has collections of rare books, prints and photographs, as well as troves of music and valuable artifacts — like a flute owned by President James Madison, which the singer and rapper ...

Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime achievement award on Thursday at the National Museum of American History.

President Trump abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House purges the government of those perceived ...

Widespread layoffs of federal workers are rippling through the housing market of the nation's capital, with Washington, DC, in April seeing the biggest surge in the number of homes for sale ever ...

Wilson building to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History ... were among hundreds marching for change on May 3. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer) “Our monuments, our ...

a date chosen so the show would coincide with the June WorldPride celebration in Washington. But in late April, the show’s opening date was removed from the museum’s and the Smithsonian’s ...