It’s becoming increasingly easy to tell whether an exhibit at one of the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C. was designed decades ago or in recent years, simply by whether its depictions are ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display. NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery ...

Each butterfly purchase helps fund the Dorcus Utter Butterfly Pavilion, an organization dedicated to protecting the insect’s habitats and raising environmental awareness. Since butterflies require ...

In his latest attempt to police thought in America, the president issued an executive order last week that aims to control museum exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution and re-erect any ...

He announced his departure in a memo to museum staff, said Smithsonian spokesperson Linda St. Thomas, three weeks after the Smithsonian had announced internally that he was on indefinite personal ...

Now President Donald Trump is interfering with a jewel in our nation’s cultural crown, the 178-year-old Smithsonian Institution. Established by Congress in 1846 and based in Washington ...

I am a Smithsonian Institution nerd. I have been for as long as I can remember. I can’t say I’m surprised that President Trump is attacking the Smithsonian. He is following the authoritarian ...

starting with the Smithsonian Institution.” During the campaign, Trump professed ignorance of Project 2025. “I’ve never read it, and I never will,” he said. This was hard to parse.

And I want the Smithsonian to legitimize important issues, whether it’s 1619 or climate change. We help people think about what’s important, what they should debate, what they should embrace.

Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African American ...