Administration officials met with staff at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and discussed putting multiple ...

The summer festival, held annually since 1967, will not take place as usual on the National Mall, which will instead host the president’s Great American State Fair.

In 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is celebrating all things American bison. Through a series of ...

As museums return Indian art looted from temples, restitution debates shift toward global access, power, and cultural diplomacy. What comes next?

The town of Meeker this year will be one of a handful Colorado communities hosting a traveling Smithsonian Institution ...

The Smithsonian ’s National Museum of Asian Art announced that it was returning three medieval bronze sculptures to India ...

Museums, dealers, galleries and collectors abroad used the Indian government’s previous slow pace and lack of records to ...

Washington: The United States is set to return three historic South Indian bronze sculptures to India after rigorous provenance research confirmed they were illegally removed from temple sites in the ...

One Sculpture Is to Remain on Long-Term Loan, Enabling the Museum To Share Its Complete History With the Public ...

“The object of the Museum is to acquire power,” announces a crusty old archaeologist in Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1977 satire, The Golden Child. It isn’t a goal he respects. He wants the museum where he’s ...

Florida A&M University is having an expanded presence at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) with the debut of a new exhibition. As part of a new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution gave the White House new documents on its planned exhibits Tuesday in response to a demand to share precise details of what its museums and other programs ...