Mark your calendar for the Mother Tongue Film Festival and events covering everything from odd oceanic couples to resilient ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are free to visit, but fees do apply for the Butterfly Pavilion ...

Peter Bentzon (ca. 1783–after 1850) was not only a free man; he was also a silversmith and jeweler who worked in Philadelphia and on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. Bentzon’s work is recognized ...

Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver lines to Smithsonian station or Federal Triangle station.

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

“It will take a whole-of-society effort to do this, and folding the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History into the Smithsonian is one step toward that goal. We must uplift Jewish ...

An executive order by Donald Trump prohibits all DEI programs at federal institutions. Some have already dismantled them.

The Nye Museum in East Sandwich has been selected as one of six sites in Massachusetts to display the Smithsonian’s “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” traveling exhibit, beginning later ...

It's a story that in some ways began about 20 years ago during a Central Michigan University fraternity event for accounting ...

Bunch became the Smithsonian’s 14th Secretary in 2019 and, before that, was founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). His history at the ...

The first Medal of Honor earned by an African American, and some of the slave shackles that they have on display, just poignant pieces of American history,” Davis said.