WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Hundreds of visitors filed into the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History over the weekend as Smithsonian Institution museums reopened after a government shutdown ...

Dennis Chestnut remembers the day in 1968 when his mother called him on the communal pay phone of his college dormitory. Kelvin Mock, a 7-year-old boy from the largely Black neighborhood where ...

After being closed for more than a month due to the government shutdown, Smithsonian museums are set to reopen on a rolling basis starting Friday, Nov. 14. The National Museum of American History, the ...

Technician Maggie Halloran explains to a group of high school students how DNA sequencing works at the National Museum of Natural History’s new Laboratories of Analytical Biology (LAB), a molecular ...

All Smithsonian museums that were closed due to the government shutdown are expected to reopen Monday. The Smithsonian’s website said all of its “museums, research centers and the zoo” remain closed ...

The sight of food trucks lining the National Mall is a common one. But where will they go next, now that the Smithsonian museums are closing as part of the government shutdown? “That’s a good question ...

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, ...

The institution operates some of the most popular sites in Washington and beyond, including 21 museums and the National Zoo. As of Sunday, the doors were closed. By Derrick Bryson Taylor and Darren ...

As the oldest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Adler Planetarium has garnered a reputation for feeling a bit dated in recent years. But the planetarium’s astrophysicists are working on “new ...