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Chesapeake Bay research from 2006

Smithsonian Facility on the Chesapeake Bay Preps for Hurricane Irene

To protect equipment and ongoing experiments, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have to think beyond sandbags

1976 NFL metal lunchbox

The List: Smithsonian’s Top 11 Football Artifacts

The Smithsonian’s unique collection of football art, memorabilia and unusual artifacts

The Smithsonian Castle Building is closed today; however, all museums and the National Zoo are open.

Smithsonian Museums and National Zoo Are Open Today, but the Castle Remains Closed

The museums are open today, but assessment of any damages from yesterday’s earthquake will continue throughout the day

All museums are closed today, after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake.

Smithsonian Museums Close for the Afternoon After 5.9 Earthquake Hits Washington, D.C.

The Smithsonian museums, including the Zoo, are closed for the remainder of the day

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Weekend Events September 2-5: Tarantula Feedings, Book Signings, Harry Potter, and Labor Day

This weekend, check out a giant spider at mealtime, get a book autographed, and take advantage of your last chance to see Harry Potter in 3D

The original Smokey Bear at the Zoo

Smokey Bear, the Spokesman and National Zoo Highlight

Who said this famous line? “Remember, Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires.” Did you know that Smokey Bear actually lived at the Smithsonian?

Closing Soon: 1) "Calder's Portraits: A New Language;" 2) "Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection;" 3) "Chinamania: Whistler and the Victorian Craze for Blue-and-White;" 4) "Fragments in Time and Space"*

Hurry In! Exhibitions Closing in August

Summer and the city is hot. Refresh and cool down at these exhibits, closing this month

The Air and Space Museum’s Ask and Expert Lecture series is at it again this Wednesday with a look into the life of Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov

Events August 1-5: Seasons Arts of Japan, Doll Pins, Gherman Titov, Ancient Central America, Dinner and a Movie

This week visit the Smithsonian for ExplorAsia, a craft session at Anacostia, a chance to learn about Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov and more

Beginning July 23, at Natural History, see examples of technologies that endow researchers with X-ray vision. Shown here is Selene vomer by David Johnson, 2008.

What’s Up

The caldonian gecko, one of the zoo's many reptiles.

Weekend Events July 29-31: Guest Chef, Meet a Chelonian and Get Creative at Anacostia

A ward in Carver General Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Touring the Tools of Civil War Medicine

Murray Hall at the ballot box

Events July 25-29: Harry Potter, Portraits Alive, Owney, the Negro Leagues and Apollo 15

Visitors participating in the "Forensic Friday" event at which a child's cast iron coffin and other skeletal remains from the Richards Family Crypt are analyzed by Dr. Doug Owsley and Kari Bruwelheide. This Friday’s guest is the FBI Explosives Unit

Weekend Events July 22-24: Forensic Science, a Summer Concert and an Afternoon of Poetry

It is National Zookeeper week, to celebrate the National Zoo will be hosting a discussion panel with several of the zookeepers Wednesday night.

Events July 18-22: Journey to the Stars, Drawing, Zoo Keepers, Funk Art and Mars

Scavengers play Pheon

Weekend Events July 15-17: The Inca Road, Pheon and More

This weekend take part in a satellite discussion about the Inca Road, Pheon and a look into a new American History exhibition

Balancing act: men and their big-wheeled ordinaries in one of the first bicycling touring clubs, in 1879 near Readville, Massachusetts.

The List: Tour de Smithsonian—Historic Bicycles Worthy of Display

Winterton Conway Curtis (1875-1969) testified on behalf of John T. Scopes during the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925.

Newly Digitized Images of the Scopes Monkey Trial Reveal the Witnesses

The Smithsonian Institution Archives commemorate the 86th anniversary of The State of Tennessee v. John Scopes with 25 newly digitized portraits

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July 11: Today’s Events for the Last Day of the Folklife Festival

Make the most of the last events by trying Amazonian tucupí broth, made of scalded cassava, or try your hand at the tango

A 1941 Goddard Rocket on display in the Milestones of Flight gallery at the National Mall building.

Events Post July 11-15: ExplorAsia, Addy’s World, the Goddard 1940/41 Rocket, Al Najoom and Hubble 3D

A visitor samples southeast Asian food at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

July 10: Today’s Events at the Folklife Festival

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