When Air and Space opened in 1976, Neil Armstrong’s first small step was fresh in our memories. With the nation’s 250th ...

Ewing, H., & Ballard, A. (2009). A guide to Smithsonian architecture. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. Summary Construction began on the Smithsonian Institution Building better known as the Castle ...

“People would say, ‘Well, this is the opportunity to craft a museum by Black people, for Black people, and I thought that was a mistake,” said Bunch, the current secretary of the Smithsonian Museum.

Transporting Discovery would be enormously complicated since the two modified Boeing 747s that carried space shuttles mounted ...

The Smithsonian Castle is a beautiful neo-Gothic building towering over the National Mall in Washington DC. “The Castle” is actually the Smithsonian Visitor Center, and you should check it out ...

The Smithsonian is in need of at least two sites for planned museums: the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women’s History Museum.

We went behind the scenes to see how the museum is digitizing its entire collection and building a DNA library to help solve real-world problems.