Hanging from the center ceiling overseeing the visitors of the museum is a life-sized model of "Phoenix" the North Atlantic Right Whale, the ambassador of the Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian ...

Did you know that many of the largest and most beautiful crystals on display in the museum come from a unique type of rock known as pegmatites? What are pegmatites and what makes them special? At ...

Hundreds gathered outside the National Museum of American History to be there when the doors opened for the first time in ...

In an afternoon's walk through ground zero of Americana — the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History — objects around every corner invite one question: What could possibly be more American ...