Thousands of years ago, Chinese musicians worked with foundry technicians to cast matched sets of bronze bells of different sizes to produce a range of tones. They developed oval-shaped bells that, ...

PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR INSTRUMENT TO THE SMITHSONIAN Violins by famous makers such as Stradivari, Guarneri, Maggini, Amati, or Stainer had numerous followers and imitators. Often a disciple placed a ...

The Airbus IMAX® Theater at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center features the largest IMAX screen in Northern Virginia, towering six stories high. Getting Here FAQ Group Sales Showtimes are published on ...

New Study Offers First Look at Diet and Ecology of River Otters in Chesapeake Bay ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will present “Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared” this fall, the ...

Since its first scientific description in 2000, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungus that causes the deadly amphibian chytrid disease, has devastated amphibian populations in Central and ...

“We are thrilled to accept the F-15C into the museum’s collection,” said Michael Hankins, modern military curator at the ...

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is located at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington Dulles ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s newly accessioned F-15 will fly in to Dulles Airport and taxi to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ...

Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W.

As the keeper of memory for the nation, it is our privilege and responsibility to tell accurate and complete histories. As has been recently reported, in July, a placard was removed from the National ...

The Smithsonian pollen collection housed at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History contains more than 18,000 species, making it one ...