For 175 years, the Smithsonian has embraced the notion that ... will be held on August 26 at 7 p.m. ET. Join Secretary Bunch and a panel of esteemed experts at oursharedfuture.si.edu.

The White House's budget would pull all government funding from the Anacostia Community Museum and the planned National ...

Lonnie Bunch faces a challenging situation. He needs to uphold the Smithsonian’s mission while navigating the directives from the administration. One strategy may be to emphasize the importance ...

They ingrained in me early the importance of education. That’s why, when I think about how the Smithsonian can be of value to our public, the answer is clear: education. And as our country’s ...

A few years later, in 1891, they joined the first animals at the new National Zoo. Smithsonian Institution Archives After a year of absence, returning to my office in the Smithsonian Castle has ...

In Myanmar, a scientist with Smithsonian’s Global Health Program examines the world’s smallest mammal, a bumblebee bat. Roshan Patel / National Zoo Earlier this year, when leading infectious ...

Donald Trump doesn’t even know what National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet exactly did wrong. According to The ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is confronting the most pointed political ...

into a nursery of living thoughts,” George Brown Goode, the first curator of the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building (AIB), wrote in 1889. “It should be a house full of ideas.” ...

Jim Preston / Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum After the Smithsonian collects an object, what happens to it? Some objects go on display, some become vital resources for researchers and ...

said he believed Mr. Bunch, with whom he has collaborated on conferences, would be guided by what he viewed as best for the Smithsonian. “Lonnie is an institutionalist,” he said.