The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced a special Asia After Dark program commemorating Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. The event takes place Friday, Nov. 1, 5–9:30 p.m. It ...

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation granted the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) $12 million to support GEO-TREES, a partnership of a dozen research organizations providing a free, ...

Andrew Earle Simpson, composer and professor of music at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian Ambassadors help visitors navigate the Smithsonian by meeting them where they are— outside roving the National Mall. The core mission of the Ambassador program is to make connections ...

For more information on the choice to use “Participatory Science” instead of “Citizen Science” visit the Smithsonian ...

Voting is the cornerstone of democracy, and yet the story of voting in America has often been one of exclusion—and many who are able to vote choose not to exercise the right. The fight for voting ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, is displaying the Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828, in “Nation to ...

ALERT: The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History will be CLOSED Tuesday, July 9, due to NATO meetings in Washington, D.C.

There are no showtimes for this date. After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a ...