Photos and Video

Knowing Nature: Gibbous Moon

Knowing Nature: Castner Glacier

Knowing Nature: Caribou Herd

Lion of Merelani (dark background)

Rough Lion of Merelani

Lion of Merelani

Nyayanga site being excavated in July 2016

Smithsonian Castle

Smithsonian Castle and Enid A. Haupt Garden

Barro Colorado Island Research Station

Howler monkey eating flowers

Melissa Chiu with first lady Dr. Jill Biden at the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden groundbreaking

Groundbreaking for the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden on the National Mall

Groundbreaking for the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden on the National Mall

The National Native American Veterans Memorial

The National Native American Veterans Memorial

The National Native American Veterans Memorial

Prince Aghatise Erediauwa, representing the oba (king) of Benin Kingdom in Nigeria

Kaywin Feldman, Director of the National Gallery of Art, speaks at the Benin Bronzes Repatriation Ceremony at the National Museum of African Art

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Lai Mohammed, the Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture

Ngaire Blankenberg, Director of the National Museum of African Art

Eight of the 29 Benin bronzes were returned to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 in Washington.

Video reconstruction of Opisthiamimus gregori fossil skull