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The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has welcomed a Boeing CV2 Cargo Air Vehicle (CAV) to the collection. This CAV was the first remotely piloted large eVTOL (electrical vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft to be flown…

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will host Deesha Dyer, former White House Social Secretary for President Obama, to discuss her book Undiplomatic, detailing the personal impact of…

The National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, will display the Quapaw Treaty of 1818 in “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian…

How do Native youth activists envision a sustainable future? How are Native communities uniquely affected by climate change? This Earth Day, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents Youth In Action:…

New Orleans, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StoryFile and The National WWII Museum opened Voices from the Front, a new interactive experience that connects visitors with veterans, Home Front workers and other witnesses about their…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced its 2024 May Arts and Culture Festival. From May 10 to May 12, the museum will host pop-ups, performances, discussions and other programs that draw upon the role of the…

Liverpool artist William Lindsay Windus painted The Black Boy in 1844. National Museums Liverpool…

The exhibition is on view from March 28 through Sept. 2 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s main building in Washington, D.C. It is organized by Leslie Umberger, curator of folk and self-taught art, and Virginia Mecklenburg,…

Douglas Latchford, left, and Emma C. Bunker (Photos by Tang Chhin/AFP via Getty Images and provided by the University of Colorado Denver) The Denver Art Museum plans to return nearly a dozen antiquities from Southeast Asia that passed…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art presents “Do Ho Suh: Public Figures,” a sculpture by contemporary Korean artist Do Ho Suh commissioned to celebrate the museum’s 100th anniversary. The monumental plinth will be…

Memphis, TN, March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum will host the fourth and final national convening entitled “The Resilience: Combatting Police Violence through Policy and Public Safety” on March 22,…

Getty Museum releases 88K+ images of artworks with CC0 - Creative Commons Skip to content by Brigitte Vézina Open Heritage “Irises, 1889” by Vincent van Gogh, The J. Paul…

Elizabeth C. Babcock has been named director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, effective June 3. Babcock is currently the president and CEO of Forever Balboa Park in San Diego and brings over 20 years of museum…

AMSTERDAM —  The Netherlands’s National Holocaust Museum is opening on Sunday in a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose presence is prompting protest because of Israel’s deadly…

AMSTERDAM —  The Netherlands’s National Holocaust Museum is opening on Sunday in a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose presence is prompting protest because of Israel’s deadly…

AMSTERDAM —  The Netherlands's National Holocaust Museum is opening on Sunday in a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose presence is prompting protest because of Israel's deadly…

New York —  Six years ago, Nachiket Chanchani visited Angkor Wat for the first time. Inspired, the architectural historian began thinking about the relationship between the complexities of modern post-genocide Cambodia and the ancient…

Picture your typical human evolution museum display. You walk into a dimly lit space with glass boxes on white plinths or roped off areas. There are lots and lots of bones. Maybe a bit of history on how those bones were collected,…

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum will launch its first digital exhibition tomorrow March 8 in celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. “Becoming Visible: Bringing American Women’s History…

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will serve as a major source of information, educational activities and experiences on and around the total solar eclipse taking place April 8. The next total solar eclipse will not…

“A Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, D.C., 1900–2000,” opens March 23 at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum with captivating artworks, artifacts and rare video footage. It tells the…

“A Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, D.C., 1900–2000,” opens March 23 at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum with captivating artworks, artifacts and rare video footage. It tells the…

William H. Johnson (1901–1970) painted his last body of work, the “Fighters for Freedom” series, in the mid-1940s as a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers and performers as well as international leaders…

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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is collaborating for the 11th year in a row with the National Cherry Blossom Festival for a series of in-person and virtual cherry blossom-themed public programs. The museum’s cherry blossom…

Join the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center in partnership with Red Sand Project on Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10 at 1165 Angelina St. for events related to We Ride for Her a documentary about The Medicine Wheel…

The latest exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, “Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork,” will display 17 contemporary Japanese metalworks alongside 18 metalworking tools that came to the…

Images Original System Car Number Livery Year Built Seats Notes Derby Corporation Tramways 1 Green and Cream 1904 45 This tram has never run at Crich as it is to a non-standard (4 feet (1,219 mm)) gauge. It was used for…

The Mississippi John Hurt Museum stood on the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta. Timothy Ivy…

CARIBOU, Maine – The Caribou Historical Society reopened its museum last year after a three-year COVID hiatus, with volunteers wanting to grow enthusiasm for local history and expand their community presence. The Whittier…

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has established a committee of scholars to guide the museum on content and provide input on the museum’s comprehensive plan to document the full spectrum of the experiences of women…

While staking locations for new plants this spring, I paused to marvel at one of my favorites in the Arboretum’s collection of around 16,000 plants. Accession 103-31*A is a European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) that we received as…

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This prototype of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter achieved the first successful free flight under simulated Martian conditions (on Earth) in 2016.…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced the world premiere of Abiding Nowhere, a film it commissioned from Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang in honor of the museum’s centennial last year. The film will be…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior and National Park Service through the Save America’s Treasures grant program to preserve the gunboat…

The gunboat USS Philadelphia, the oldest surviving American fighting vessel and an American cultural treasure, is being preserved at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in part through a $1 million leading gift…

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has announced an exciting lineup of new initiatives for Women’s History Month March 2024 that will further the museum’s mission to make women’s history more visible. These initiatives…

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has announced the names and estimated opening timeline for the final 12 galleries to open as part of the renovation of its building in Washington, D.C. The next round of galleries to…

albany, new york —  A performer who appeared naked in a show by world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic at New York City's Museum of Modern Art is suing the museum, saying it failed to take action after he was sexually…

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) commemorates Black History Month with wide-reaching programs that elevate the theme of “African Americans and the Arts,” using art as a platform for…

“From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” will now be on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art until Jan. 6, 2025. The exhibition, which imagines a powerful underwater world of African…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is launching a multi-city film screening tour of the documentary film, gOD-Talk: Reimagining Faith in the 21st Century, including panel discussions…

SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom, First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and the California Museum today announced the 17th class of leaders in science, public service, entertainment, sports, and more into the California Hall of Fame…

MIT has appointed Michael John Gorman the Mark R. Epstein (Class of 1963) Director of the recently re-imagined MIT Museum. Gorman replaces longtime museum director John Durant, who stepped down in 2023.…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced its 2024 family festival commemorating Lunar New Year, a celebration of the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar. The event takes…