At the Smithsonian | May 26, 2021. Ten More Smithsonian Museums Will Be Opening This Summer. The Director of the Natural History Museum Kirk Johnson reflects on Covid closures; learn tips for ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Culture presents a new exhibition, ... The Smithsonian Castle Will Close on February 1 for a 5-Year Renovation ...

Hirshhorn Museum — Aug. 20; National Postal Museum — Aug. 27; The National Museum of Natural History said that you’ll need free timed-entry passes to get in, and you can get them by calling ...

A page from the Brief Guide to the Smithsonian Institution shows the first floor plan of the Smithsonian Building ("the Castle") with the location of various exhibits and the basement, first floor, ...

Covid-related staffing shortages have pushed the Smithsonian to close the National Museum of Natural History through Jan. 5, bringing the number of museums shuttered this week to five. On Tuesday ...

Kathryn Jones is on a mission to read every plaque in every D.C.-area Smithsonian. While she didn’t start the project for ...

When it was completed in 1855, the Smithsonian Institution’s Castle represented the grand ambitions of a revolutionary education organization. With its library, lecture halls, laboratories and ...

A rare Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, to be a centerpiece of a future exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, will have to remain hidden a little longer. By Jeremy W. Peters ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will put the “Lion of Merelani,” which is one of the most finely detailed colored gemstones in the world, on public view starting Thursday.

The Castle, of course, has evolved in its purpose, and the Smithsonian has grown enormously over the past 150 years since that fire (21 museums and galleries, nine research facilities and a Zoo).

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reopens to the public on Friday, June 18. Like the other Smithsonian institutions, the Natural History Museum will have health ...