The Smithsonian’s collections speak to the resolve and ingenuity of America’s service members A chess set used during the ...

Researchers will use 3D modeling to assess what the "carpa uasi" in Huaytará, Peru, originally looked like and how sound ...

There are few cultural projects that have so perfectly captured both a nation’s ambition and its inertia as the ...

Former Akron Art Museum director Mitchell Kahan built its reputation for more than 26 years and helped shape many art ...

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

An independent assessment has found the country's new Archives building achieves air-tightness far beyond national and international archival standards.

Three U.S. lawmakers from Texas are accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in “illegal lobbying” to block Discovery ...

A longtime Cleveland attorney who is an expert on public meetings and public records law questions whether Cleveland State ...

A single leaked hint exposed the CIA’s most puzzling code. But dozens of the world’s toughest ciphers are still waiting to be ...

First the White House ordered up a costly political exhibition. Then reelection officials told the Smithsonian to wall off a "controversial" voting rights show, a curator later recalled.

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo shut their doors Sunday as the government shutdown enters its third week, the Smithsonian Institution posted on its website.

Located on West 28th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, the 10-story building has more than 100,000 square feet and ...