From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being reassembled in real time. The cedarwood boat, one of two that ...

On a purely visual level — looking at color, form, texture, materials — Todd Siler’s paintings, currently on display at the ...

A museum celebrating a long-running Christmas tradition showcasing artists’ craftsmanship, creativity and faith, held its ...

Many of the early exhibitions were more typical science-museum exhibitions—hands-on experiments, things you do with your hands, learning through interaction. There was an exhibition about food. There ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more ...

The biennial marks its 40th anniversary with a wide-ranging programme of 17 curators directing the projects of 51 artists ...

Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a slipup from ...

After a career spent largely in the shadows, Field Museum ornithologist Dave Willard is enjoying a moment in the spotlight ...

Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, a film crew and a team of biologists set out to capture a television moment and instead stumbled onto a scientific milestone: a colossal anaconda that may be the ...

Nigel Pitman, Mellon Senior Conservation Ecologist in the Keller Science Action Center, is co-author of a recent paper in PhytoKeys describing a new-to-science species of tiny flowering plant from ...

Exhibits at the Science Museum of Minnesota have the power to bring big topics to life. The museum’s exhibits department is sharing that power with institutions across the world. At the Science Museum ...