After five years of renovations, the institution invited the public for a 24-hour marathon celebration to inaugurate its new ...

The museum is celebrating its own history as the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere by preparing for its centennial celebration in 2030.

Earth’s skies are about to be graced with an out-of-this-world spectacle—literally. At 8:19 a.m. Eastern time this Wednesday, ...

Baltimoreans flocked to opening day of “American Sublime,” the exhibition Amy Sherald removed from the National Portrait ...

Former Akron Art Museum director Mitchell Kahan built its reputation for more than 26 years and helped shape many art ...

Two years after his reputation imploded in a sexual-harassment scandal, he’s returned with two major new projects: the Studio ...

The Smithsonian is one of the world’s foremost research centers in science, the arts, and the humanities. In addition to ...

Made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, the 18-karat gold toilet weighs 220 pounds. Another version of the artwork was ...

Many museums began reassessing security after the stunning jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris. The day after the jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris, officials from across Washington's world-famous ...

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Kevin Gover, Class of 1978, under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian, and Terence Tao, a 1996 graduate alumnus, ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman dome. Building it was complicated.