Though "Night at the Museum II: Battle of the Smithsonian" is the first film to use the museum complex as the main setting, the Institution has been featured before.

Those films enrich the experience of visitors wanting more stories and serve as an entertaining point of entry for those that were not interested in history before. — Jeremy R. Kinney, Ph.D., Chair of ...

President Donald Trump’s bill will allocate $85 million to transport the Discovery space shuttle from the Smithsonian’s Air ...

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THE Smithsonian Institution, the great scientific establishment at Washington, which, in many respects, is to the United States of America what the Royal Society is to this country, was founded ...

The Smithsonian could be the beginning of Trump’s plan to edit history. Or the end. The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.

The 179-year-old Smithsonian institute shook off President Donald Trump’s attempt to commandeer its board of regents last month when he allegedly “fired” the institution’s National ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of pterosaur - a winged reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs 200 million years ...

The head of the Smithsonian is apologizing for the dark history behind the institution’s collection of human remains. “Our forthcoming policy will finally recognize these remains not as ...

The Smithsonian Channel To Debut New Documentary, ‘Picturing The Obamas’ The two-hour special will examine the impact of Barack and Michelle Obama as their portraits travel throughout the country.

A Native American family visiting the Smithsonian Institution in the middle of the last century would have found its story told alongside rocks and fossils at the National Museum of Natural ...