Kathryn Jones is on a mission to read every plaque in every D.C.-area Smithsonian. While she didn’t start the project for posterity, proposed cuts to the institution give her experiment extra weight.

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, ...

Category Chronology of Smithsonian History Notes Image is of the Laboratory of Natural History in the East Wing of the Castle, c. 1856, Smithsonian Institution Archives, negative number 2005-10437.

Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one museum we must visit every time we go to DC even though it doesn’t have a ...

National Museum of Natural History To Recreate a 17th-Century Masterwork, an Entomologist at the National Museum of Natural History Got Creative with Butterflies, Bees and a Bit of Rosemary None ...

There’s a lot to be excited about.” “Our Story With David Attenborough” is on view at the Natural History Museum in London through January 18, 2026.

The National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum have been next-door neighbors in Washington, DC for nearly 90 years—but until now, they’ve never shared so much as a ...

I was just at the Met Ball on Monday. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of my favorites. But growing up in New York, I used to go to museums all the time. I never missed Museum Mile with my mom.

The Smithsonian is in need of at least two sites for planned museums: the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women’s History Museum.

(The Utah Museum of Natural History has one of the other skeletons in its collection.) When it goes up for auction on July 17 at Sotheby’s, it is expected to draw between $4 million and $6 million.

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