This is an installment in an occasional series of “user guides” that aim to provide readers information on how to access and use everything from public spaces to community organizations. If you have ...

For decades, parking lots at San Diego’s Balboa Park were packed, with lines of drivers snaking through lanes in search of a ...

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks’ (MDWFP) Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) invites ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

A visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park is among the essential things to do in Atlanta. Highlights of ...

Thanks to its largest-ever donation, the La Brea Tar Pits will now house the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has been named one of the top 5 Best New Museums in the United States, finishing #4 ...

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The Dinosaur National Monument was established in 1915, during ongoing excavations by the Carnegie Museum. The Carnegie ...

Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest, ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers.