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

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

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 ...

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.

Prime ministers, presidents and royalty descended on Cairo on Saturday to attend the spectacle-laden inauguration of a sprawling new museum built near the Pyramids to house one of the world's richest ...

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards.

More than two decades in the making, the ultra-modern museum anticipates five million visitors annually, with never-before-seen relics on display.