The Smithsonian’s leadership is being forced to review, not so much the president’s rationale, but his authority to make such ...

When the National Portrait Gallery was created by an act of Congress in 1962, the authorizing legislation defined portraiture ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am herby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...