When the National Portrait Gallery was created by an act of Congress in 1962, the authorizing legislation defined portraiture as “painted or sculptured likenesses.” And when it referred to the future ...

President Donald Trump has threatened to gut the world-renowned Smithsonian Institution in an executive order that aims to eliminate the museum network’s “anti-American ideology.” Trump wants to ...

The Smithsonian just hard-launched “Campaign for Our Shared Future,” the institution’s largest fundraising initiative in its 178-year history. The network of 21 museums, 14 research centers, and one ...

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo officially shut down to the public Sunday due to the government shutdown, which is on Day 13. The Smithsonian announced Friday on the social platform X that ...

The Smithsonian Institute announced Saturday that its museums will be closed starting Sunday as the lapse in government funding persists. “Due to the government shutdown, Smithsonian museums are ...

The magazine’s most-read articles of the year included a deep dive on the Scopes "monkey trial," an interview with ...

When Donald Trump published an August 12 letter addressed to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, informing him of “a comprehensive internal review” of the shows and explanatory materials at ...

Smithsonian’s educational travel program was one of the first of its kind when it debuted nationally in 1970, and it quickly found an audience eager to explore places both familiar and far-flung—from ...

The Smithsonian’s flagship podcast Sidedoor launches its 12th season today, Nov. 26. Lizzie Peabody, senior producer and host, takes listeners into the heart (and halls) of the Smithsonian with ...

Smithsonian Associates offers one-of-a-kind learning experiences for Smithsonian Summer Camp that spark the imagination and engage campers with Smithsonian museums, their exhibitions and themes. A ...

In 1944, a Russian IL-2 warplane was shot down by the Germans near the town of Pustoshka in the western Soviet Union. It crash-landed on a frozen lake. And when the ice melted, the plane sank to the ...