Cellphones put the power of the world at our fingertips and it's all made possible by rocks formed millions of years ago, deep underground.

Explore a selection of dinosaur fossils and related artifacts in the National Museum of Natural History's collections. Learn the story of O.C. Marsh and how his unquenchable thirst for fossils ...

Don Eddy once described himself as “an obsessive-compulsive precisionist.” The execution of his hyperrealistic paintings requires tremendous discipline and scrupulous attention to detail. His process ...

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance July 12, 2024 – April 20, 2025 Portrait Gallery ...

Memory is a repository for history—one that can be unlocked by the voice. But living memory can be lost forever if it is not recorded. That is why historians across the Smithsonian are racing to ...

In 1974, the U.S. Senate dress code forbade women from wearing pants. Emily Card, then a legislative fellow, was too busy drumming up support for the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to comply. “By the ...

Identity mapping—an activity included in one of five modules co-created by Smithsonian educators and teachers in Nebraska—prompts students to think deeply about the communities they belong to: their ...

Gretchen Welch and David Welch celebrated a milestone for the National Museum of Asian Art at the Centennial Celebration Dinner on May 11, 2023. PHOTO Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for National Museum of ...

Octavia Butler (1947-2006) broke new ground as a writer of science fiction. She expanded the genre by publishing some of the earliest examples of “Afrofuturism,” combining African history and folklore ...

Exploring the papers of San Francisco Bay Area portraitist Lenore Chinn at the Archives of American Art is like experiencing a lifetime of art and activism as a moving collage. The 75-year-old ...

"Race and Wealth" is one of six thematic pillars of the initiative Our Shared Future: Reckoning with our Racial Past. These pillars can help us understand the past to build a better future. They are ...

There are no showtimes for this date. Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison ...