Visitors return to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2021, after the museum was closed for more than 400 days due to the pandemic. Win McNamee / Getty ...

Lending art to the White House is nothing new for Smithsonian museums. In the 1940s, when the tradition began, the museums had a growing collection of artworks and limited gallery space. The White ...

Envisioning what networked art information at US museums might look like. (slide image via americanartcollaborative.org) Imagine typing “John Singer Sargent” into a search engine and being able to see ...

WASHINGTON -- Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown. The shutdown impacts all 21 of the Smithsonian's ...

Emma Natalya Stein in the exhibition “The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas." National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Photo by Debra Diamond. The ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art is returning to the Indian government three bronzes, museum leaders said, after extensive provenance research indicated that the objects ...

The Smithsonian museums, National Gallery of Art and other sites that receive federal funding are announcing their reopening plans now that the government shutdown is over. While the financial impact ...