Two court cases over 200 years apart reflect what happens when commercial and artistic interests meet
Museum collections and a new documentary on Jim Henson’s life and career reveal how his creativity cemented his legacy
A pair of the bears will arrive at the Smithsonian's National Zoo by the end of 2024
The vessel from 1960s sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie,” now on display at the National Museum of American History, could not contain the exuberance of the beloved character
Invented 50 years ago, the curious box deciphered an arcane kind of code to offer shoppers a trip into the future
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A century later, a new book captures the grand scale of the mountain and uncovers more about the expedition and the people at its center
A show featuring early 20th-century figures tells the story of how the city became a haven for artists
The starfighter-outfitted drone was the first remotely piloted aircraft of its kind and size approved by the Federal Aviation Administration for public demonstration
Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s “Public Figures” makes a grand arrival outside the National Museum of Asian Art
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art displays haunting, colorful woodblock prints
New research on branching animals known as octocorals pushes the early days of bioluminescence back over 200 million years
These ten misconceptions underplay how much we have altered the global environment and undermine the new perspective we need to deal with a drastically changed world
The singer’s presence can still be felt at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Robert M. Pirsig’s odyssey vehicle takes its final ride as it vrooms into public view for the first time ever at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
A new exhibition at the National Museum of American History aims to inspire the next generation of innovators
A Smithsonian folklorist looks back and finds stories that explain how a darkening of daytime skies provokes a foreboding of evil
How deep faith created one of the loveliest—and most curious—sacred objects in the Smithsonian collections
The first image of the black hole taken in polarized light, the new view shows the supermassive structure's magnetic fields and hints that it could be hiding an enormous jet
A self-described "little man in a hurry," Joseph Hirshhorn built a premier modern art collection