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Zeiss Projector in the Albert Einstein Planetarium at the National Air and Space Museum, weeks before being deinstalled.

National Air and Space Museum

Farewell to the Zeiss Planetarium Projector

Collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History are filled with all sorts of eerie specimens. (Clockwise from top left: Gilles San Martin via Wikimedia, Smithsonian Institution, NoahElhardt via Wikimedia, Karie Darrow)

National Museum of Natural History

Six Bewitching Smithsonian Specimens to Get You Ready for Halloween

Katie Couric will receive the 2019 John P. McGovern at a Smithsonian Associates event on Nov. 12. (Kevin Lynch Inc)

Smithsonian Associates

A Conversation with Katie Couric and 23 Other Smithsonian Associates Events in November

Alaska Magazine calls the Inuit drum-dance group Pamyua

National Museum of the American Indian

From new music and dance fusions to traditional festivals, the museum's Native American Heritage Month is something special

Visitors in the gallery are confronted not just with the violence of colonization, but with the agency of Native and African resistance in the Caribbean, as well. Graphic design by Barbara Suhr for NMAI. Photo by Lawrence Waldron.

National Museum of the American Latino

A Funeral for the Caribbean’s Native Extinction Hypothesis

Maria Oakey Dewing,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Consider This Maverick of the Aesthetic Movement

A Bryde's whale from a community in the Gulf of Mexico. The rare whales face a myriad of threats including pollution and being hit by ships. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

National Museum of Natural History

Saving This Rare Whale Skeleton was a Dirty Job

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientist Mike Henley dives at a coral nursery where brown rice coral and blue rice coral grow.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Testing the Waters: Coral Nurseries and Climate Change

Ian Kuali'i with some of his cut-paper art, June 2019. (Courtesy of the artist)

National Museum of the American Indian

Time-lapse video of artist Ian Kuali'i working on a paper-cut portrait

Lucia Torrez and Grace Davis identify fruit that monkeys on Barro Colorado Island in Panama have been eating. Do primate leaders know where the best fruiting trees are to be found? Credit: Sean Mattson, STRI

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Here's the Scoop on Monkey Leadership

Juan Sánchez,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

The Aftermath of Hurricane María

The spectacled flowerpecker has been spotted eating mistletoe, a parasitic plant that grows high in Borneo’s forest canopy. The distinctive white markings around the eyes earned these birds their common name. (John Anderton)

National Museum of Natural History

Scientists Describe New Bird Species 10 Years After First Reported Sighting

On opening day of the new fossil hall, visitors flocked to the windows of the FossiLab to see fossil preparation in action. (James D. Tiller, Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian Puts Backstage Fossil Preparation Center Stage in its New Fossil Hall

Comic book illustration from La Borinqueña #1,written and created by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez. Illustration by Will Rosado and digital colors by Juan Fernández.© 2016 SomosArte, LLC.

National Museum of the American Latino

We Are Still Here: The First Taíno Movement Exhibition

David Levinthal,

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

The Puck Stops Here: David Levinthal's Hockey Photographs

As far as predators go, coyotes are one of the most resourceful and resilient.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Connecting with Coyotes on the Prowl

From the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Funding provided by Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund; Gift of Nion T. McEvoy, Chair of SAAM Commission (2016-2018) and McEvoy’s fellow Commissioners in his honor.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

How Arthur Jafa Created a Contemporary "Guernica"

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Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Burning Man: Through the Fire

It's easy to spot the difference between Karl and Karoline (even without Karl’s beak). Karoline is smaller and has a blue and black throat sack. Like other male Abyssinian ground hornbills, Karl has a red and blue throat sack.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

When Karl Met Karoline

A student learns how to turn spring foliage into botanical watercolors and prints on paper in the Smithsonian Associates studio arts class, Painting and Printing: Leaves Two Ways. (Sue Fierston)

Smithsonian Associates

A Botanical Painting and Printing Class and 21 Other Things to Do at the Smithsonian in October

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