Joshua Bell, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, says that many people still ...

First Thursday Art Walk, March 6 | 5-8 pm | Free to the public: Mark your calendars for the March First Thursday Art Walk! The Customs House Museum offers free admission during the First Thursday Art ...

(The Conversation) — As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, ...

Experts reveal that merchants brought domestic cats to China via the Silk Road, supported by new DNA research on ancient cat ...

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Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

The three baby wolves were born this winter at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s conservation and research campus in Front Royal ...

A new exhibit featuring nearly 300 never-before-seen fossils will open at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science ...

Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic ...

Looming cuts come as Donald Trump tries to reshape the US diplomatic corps to align with his ‘America First’ agenda.