When you dine or shop with the Smithsonian, your purchase helps us bring exciting learning opportunities to everyone. Each museum features unique merchandise, so be sure to visit them all or shop ...

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 ...

April is Arab American Heritage Month. Americans of Arab heritage have advanced the nation’s achievements in diplomacy, science, technology, as well as in art and culture. In 1962, Dr. Alixa Naff set ...

Object Details Author Takarabe, Kae Citation Takarabe, Kae. 2013. "Research on Technological Innovation in Science Museums and the Use of its Results: A Case Study of the Smithsonian Institution." ...

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The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

A tour of the flowering plants : based on the classification system of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group / texts and photographs by Priscilla Spears ...

Mark your calendars for the education conference of the summer! The 2025 Smithsonian National Education Summit takes place July 15–17. Offered both virtually for a global audience and in-person in ...

What everyone should know about Foucault pendulums and how they prove the earth rotates ...

Forest trees of the Pacific slope With a new foreword by Woodbridge Metcalf and a new table of changes in nomenclature by E. S. Harrar ...

We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” Thomas Paine proclaimed in the pamphlet “Common Sense,” his argument ...

Annual manual : index of education programs in New York City's museums, zoos, and botanical gardens ...