According to the Ross family account, which Canby popularized at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, George Washington ... Bentley sent prints of snowflakes to the Smithsonian in 1903.

The Smithsonian Castle is a beautiful neo-Gothic building towering over the National Mall in Washington DC. “The Castle” is ...

Track your travels through the nation’s capital with fun stickers in a new adventure passport Smithsonian Books Since its founding, Washington, DC has grown significantly. Today, the city is ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third ...

It was a stunning report from The Washington Post this summer: a collection of more than 250 human brains acquired by a Smithsonian museum back in the early 1900s. The Washington Post's Claire ...

Last August, the Washington ... DC, and in addition, the National Museum of Natural History holds more than 30,000 bones and body parts from human beings, many of which appear to have been gathered ...