China first sent giant pandas as a gift to the U.S. 50 years ago. Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, who arrived in 2000, are on loan until the end of 2023. Smithsonian National Zoo In 1890, our grand ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The institution caters to a wide audience—not merely shutterbugs ... you'll be forgiven for having a little giggle. One of two Smithsonian museums in NYC, the Cooper Hewitt is housed in a ...

The Smithsonian Castle is a beautiful neo-Gothic building towering over the National Mall in Washington DC. “The Castle” is ...

Smithson never visited the United States, though his remains are now housed at the Smithsonian Institution Building, known as the Castle. These days, the Smithsonian is about 62 percent federally ...

The leaders of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Germany also weighed in on the tensions between the White House and Smithsonian Castle, framing it in the context of Trump’s broader ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday taking aim at the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers. Trump directed Vice President JD Vance to eliminate ...

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order that took aim at one of the US's foremost cultural and scientific institutions: the Smithsonian. Upset by exhibits that reference ...

With 17 museums, a garden, the Archives of American Art, and a zoo, the Smithsonian is sprawling, eclectic, and in President Trump’s line of fire. His freshly minted executive order “Restoring ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing Vice President JD Vance to eliminate “divisive race-centered ideology” from Smithsonian museums, educational and research ...

President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution of propagating “divisive, race-based ideology” and issued an executive order Thursday demanding an end to federal funding for exhibitions ...