What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order threatens to pull federal funding from exhibits and programs the administration ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums, educational and ...

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.” ...

Who determines what ideology is “proper?” That’s the question hanging over President Trump’s executive order about the ...

In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged him to reject President Trump’s push to reshape it.

Of all the reasons people visit the Smithsonian, number one is the collections. Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers, the Wright Flyer, the Hope Diamond: Each gives me chills—an electrifying sense of ...

Funding for the report was provided by the Andrew Mellon, Alice L. Walton and Ford Foundations. In 2023, Mellon committed ...