This above lithographic print depicts men in action during the Battle of Gettysburg. Armed Forces History / NMAH This U.S. Army canteen, sporting a bulls-eye design and a painted scene of camp life, ...

The nearly 200 year old Smithsonian Castle, closed in 2023 for renovations, will reopen for America250 celebrations before ...

The 250th anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence July 4, 2026, known as the Semiquincentennial, is a historic milestone. Two-and-a-half centuries ago, 56 signatures on a ...

It’s the largest collection of its kind in the world: An entire cache of massive 20-feet-long whale skulls, 70-foot spines, giant flippers and much more. If you ever get the chance to see the ...

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) not only began a tradition of “gunboat diplomacy” so often associated with mid-nineteenth century American expansionism, it also ...

Gary Staab makes a careful adjustment to the massive head of a bull bison. The Missouri sculptor created a trio of burly bovines for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

STATESBORO, Ga. (WTOC) - You’ve likely heard of the world’s largest museum network, the Smithsonian Institution, but have you heard that we have one of their collections in our area? Instead of flying ...