News Releases

Selected Artworks Will Be Exhibited in Major Exhibition and Tour

“New Glass Now” Challenges Traditional Conceptions of Glass and Introduces New Perspectives

Annual Event Highlights Works by Indigenous Filmmakers From the Western Hemisphere and Arctic

First Major Exploration of the Future on the National Mall To Launch With ‘FUTURES Remixed’ Festival, Featuring Bill Nye, Pattie Gonia, SHAED, HBO Max’s “Legendary,” Kal Penn and More

All Smithsonian Museums and the National Zoo To Remain Open

New Exhibition “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies” Now Open

Spotlight Is on African American Visions of Freedom and Unmet Promises Following the Civil War. Exhibition Also Explores the Contemporary Legacies of Reconstruction, Racial Profiling, and Voter Suppression Through Items From the Families of Trayvon Martin

Astronomers Discover a Humongous Cavity in Space While Mapping Interstellar Dust; the Sphere-shaped Phenomenon May Explain How Supernovae Lead to Star Formation

Cub Will Go to Foster Cheetah Mother in Coming Weeks

“Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano” Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Oct. 8

Autonomous Electric Concept Vehicle Will Be Making Its Museum Debut at the Arts and Industries Building in November, Alongside Iconic 1960s Bell Jetpack

Series of New Images Reveals That Planets Form in Organic Soups—and No Two Soups Are Alike

“Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.” Exhibition Uses Art To Explore the Black Lives Matter Movement, Social Protests and the Struggle for Equality and Freedom

Symposium Explores Hidden Stories of Enslaved Indigenous Peoples

Assisted Gene Flow Using Cryopreservation Is a Critical Step Toward Buffering Coral Reefs Against Warming Oceans

“Critical Distance” Will Open Sept. 29

Exhibition Explores the People Represented by Washington, D.C.’s Streets and Public Spaces

National Museum of American History Looks at Public Memory, Collections and Programs