“Youth and the Future of Culture” Highlights Younger Generations July 2–7 ...

Culture collides at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, not only for those visiting, but for the 600 participants ...

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is working to digitize thousands of rare cassette recordings, including ...

NPR's Pien Huang takes a journey to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to hear from youth voices about how they're telling the ...

Check out the gift shops at the Smithsonian Museums on the National Mall, open on Christmas Eve until 5:30 p.m. ‘Tis the season for buying presents. But more and more, ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival returns next week to D.C., running from July 2 through 7 with a theme focused on youth from ...

Three unidentified workers elevate the Joseph Henry statue on wooden supports while the Mall is regraded, November 8, 1934. A small construction vehicle sits nearby and in the foreground is a ...

An Astronomy Festival on the National Mall 7th to 9th streets, SW. Take a tour of the night sky alongside astronomers at Hofstra University’s annual astronomy festival, which calls itself the “largest ...

Tourists and locals flock to the National Mall every year to visit the monuments, explore Smithsonian museums, take part in a school trip, admire alfresco art at the Sculpture Garden, and of course, ...

There will be free Metro fares for all from 5 p.m. until close on Metrorail, Metrobus, and MetroAccess on Friday.

A Smithsonian staffer carries a horse from the carousel for transport to the restoration facility. Donny Bajohr. In 1967, the New York Times reported that a carousel was to be permanently ...

As Smithsonian magazine’s Jesse Rhodes and Eli Wizevich reported, some people believe a labyrinth of underground Smithsonian archives are below the Mall—a complete fiction.