This year, marking the fifth anniversary of the late Lee Kun-hee, former chairman of Samsung, the Lee family, including ...

Kathryn Jones began to visit Washington's museums in January and didn't plan to make it her full-time pursuit, but it become ...

Smithsonian museums and facilities are closed for the foreseeable future as the federal government shutdown continues.

Erected in the 5th century BC to honor Athens’ patron goddess Athena, the Parthenon is the centerpiece of the Acropolis, ...

The Smithsonian Institution has closed all 21 museums and the National Zoo due to the government shutdown. Find out more ...

In the first book of Secret Smithsonian Adventures, four middle-schoolers visiting the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum discover that someone is tampering with history. They travel through ...

Commissioned by the Russian emperor Nicholas II, the diamond-covered Winter Egg is expected to fetch $27 million when it goes ...

How does one crack the world’s most famous code? The breakthroughs on Kryptos provide a guided tour through the cat and mouse ...