WASHINGTON -- Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown. The shutdown impacts all 21 of the Smithsonian's ...

Smithsonian museums, research centers and the National Zoo are closed as the partial government shutdown continues. The Smithsonian Institution touts itself as the world’s largest complex of museums, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With no end in sight for the government shutdown, visitors and residents of the nation's capital cannot visit the Smithsonian museums or the National Zoo. The Smithsonian said in a ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order last March for the National Park Service to remove exhibits that cast the ...

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are welcoming members of the public back after weeks of closures because of the government shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which receives federal ...

The exhibition will feature the premiere of two commissioned portraits, one of honoree Temple Grandin and another of honoree ...

Nicholas Pyenson, the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and Ferhan ...

A traveling Smithsonian exhibition that looks at the longtime influence of the American Indian identity on names, products and familiar stories is making an early stop at Wichita’s Mid-America ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...