In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be ...

Texas legislators accused the Smithsonian of potentially violating anti-lobbying laws. The Smithsonian told Congress moving ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of ...

The closures would affect some of the most popular tourist attractions in Washington, D.C.—including the National Museum of Natural History, the Air and Space Museum, and the National Zoo—which have ...

Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

WASHINGTON -- Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown. The shutdown impacts all 21 of the Smithsonian's ...

Three Texas Republicans urged the Justice Department to investigate their allegations that the Smithsonian broke lobbying law.

The National Zoo and National Air and Space Museum called off their popular annual Halloween kids’ events, a disappointment for many D.C.-area families as the government shutdown hit two weeks with no ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the founding director of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C., returns ...

Kathryn Jones began to visit Washington's museums in January and didn't plan to make it her full-time pursuit, but it become ...