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Why are capuchin monkeys kidnapping howler monkey babies in Panama? We investigate this bizarre case of primate abduction ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will open “Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe,” the first major retrospective of the acclaimed Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist, at its museum in ...

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) will open its next exhibition, “How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories,” Nov. 20 at the Nicholas F. and Eugenia Taubman Gallery in the ...

National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center Hosts Annual “Air & Scare” Event Oct. 25 ...

Jefferson Dr. S.W. Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art is committed to preserving, exhibiting, researching and interpreting art in ways that deepen the public and scholarly ...

Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo will use prior-year funds to remain open to the public during the federal government shutdown through Saturday, October 11, 2025. Updates ...

The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...

Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) left an enduring mark on the history of photography in his 20-volume life's work, The North American Indian. Between 1900 and 1930, Curtis traveled across the continent ...

“Innovations in Flight” at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Will Commemorate 80th Anniversary of World War II End May 12, 2025 Air and Space Museum Public Programs ...

Learn about Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson (1916–2005) and how environmental disasters of his day inspired the creation of Earth Day in 1970. On December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts captured a now ...

May 20–21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh made his famous solo, non-stop transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Philo T. Farnsworth transmitted the first electronic TV image, physicist Heisenberg ...