How's your knowledge of the music of the Chicano movement in the 1960s and 1970s, or of Cajun and Zydeco music from south-west Louisiana?

Check the website to see what's on display before you go. Attracting millions of people each year, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum contains a trove of celebrated aircraft ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives’ digital catalog more accessible Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The National ...

(October 18, 2025, through August 30, 2026) “Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum She didn’t begin painting in earnest until the age of 78. But when she ...

Visitors at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will soon get a double dose of President-elect Trump, as the museum installs a second photograph of him ahead of the ...

Male giant panda Bao Li in his habitat at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Oct. 24, 2024. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

NEWTON, Iowa — The Legacy Plaza in Newton has opened their doors for a Smithsonian exhibit that highlights innovation in small towns. Spark: Places of Innovation highlights rural towns around the ...

On Wednesday, the Smithsonian announced its DC museums will be closed on January 20. Inauguration Day in DC typically brings a lot of road closures, high security measures and various restrictions.

The Smithsonian National Zoo’s new pandas didn’t have to wait long for their first D.C. snowfall, and they made the most out of it Monday. The zoo posted video on Facebook of giant pandas Bao ...

Join a team of fundraising professionals across the Institution working to chart the future of the Smithsonian. Resumes are only accepted in applications for listed positions. Please send a cover ...

From the Folkways Collection of the Smithsonian Institute I obtained a copy of the recording made on tape in December 1955 at the Estrela Basilica church. It has a duration of only 28 minutes with ten ...