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Photo credit: Adam Mason, Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Elderly Asian Elephant Ambika Dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo

03.28.2020
National Zoo
Two Animals Die at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

03.24.2020
Conservation Biology Institute
National Portrait Gallery Announces Season Two of Its PORTRAITS Podcast

03.24.2020
Public Programs
Giant panda Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Photo: Meghan Murphy/Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Giant Panda Mei Xiang Is Artificially Inseminated at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

03.23.2020
National Zoo Research News
Photo Credit: Mehgan Murphy, Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Two Brown Kiwi Die at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

03.20.2020
Centers & Programs Conservation Biology Institute
How Does an Intersex Bee Behave?

03.18.2020
Tropical Research Institute Research News
Smithsonian Offers Distance-Learning Resources During School Closures

Online Resources Include Activities Tied to National Learning Standards and Support for Teachers and Parents

03.17.2020
Center for Learning and Digital Access Education News
Smithsonian Museums and the National Zoo To Close March 14

03.12.2020
Administrative News
All Smithsonian Museums and National Zoo Remain Open, Events Canceled

03.12.2020
Administrative News
Smithsonian Associates Announces 2020 Dates for “Smithsonian Sleepovers”

Thirteen Overnight Adventures Await Children at Three Smithsonian Museums

03.10.2020
Smithsonian Associates Public Programs
Title: “American Mine”
Artist: David Maisel
Credit information: © David Maisel/ Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery.

“American Mine” features open pit mines on the Carlin Trend, the most prolific gold mining district in the Western Hemisphere. Mines from this region are the source of devastating mercury emissions, released when ore is heated during the process of gold extraction.

Natural History Exhibition Enlists Artists To Reflect on Humanity’s Growing, Pervasive Role on Earth

Art Exhibition Is First-of-Its-Kind at National Museum of Natural History

03.06.2020
Natural History Museum Exhibitions
Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are a highly social species. What happens to their social interactions when individuals get sick?

Credit: Josh More

Even Fake Illness Affects Relationships Among Vampire Bats

03.05.2020
Tropical Research Institute Research News
Smithsonian Announces $12 Million Commitment From Bonnie and Jere Broh-Kahn

03.04.2020
Education News
This gold pen was used to sign the congressional joint amendment that enacted the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919. Photo by Jaclyn Nash.

Smithsonian Marks 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage

“Creating Icons” Exhibition To Mark the Centennial of the 19th Amendment

03.04.2020
American History Museum Exhibitions
Smithsonian Releases Season Five of Sidedoor Podcast

Tune in for Squid, Lingerie and Outer Space

03.04.2020
Public Programs
Smithsonian Associates Presents March Program Highlights

03.03.2020
Smithsonian Associates Public Programs
Photo credit: Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Bison Dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo

03.03.2020
Credit: Glenn Williams, Narwhal Tusk Research

“Unicorn of the Sea”—the Narwhal—Explored in Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition

Opens March 28, 2020, at Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

03.03.2020
Traveling Exhibition Service Exhibitions
Laurie Anderson

Hirshhorn Presents Groundbreaking Artist Laurie Anderson’s Largest US Exhibition to Date

“Laurie Anderson: The Weather” Surveys Pioneering Videos, Large-Scale Commissions and VR Experience, May 19–Sept. 7

02.27.2020
Museums Hirshhorn Museum Exhibitions
Genízaro Maurice Archuleta in the high desert surrounding Abiquiú. Photo @ Russel Albert Daniels, 2019.

New Exhibition Series Highlighting the Work of Native Photojournalists Opens March 24 at the National Museum of the American Indian

02.27.2020
American Indian Museum Exhibitions
Culture Makers Converse With Smithsonian’s Oral History Project

“The American Scene” Website Features 22 New Creative Industry Representatives

02.26.2020
American History Museum
Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Columbus Zoo have successfully transferred cheetah embryos produced by in vitro fertilization to a surrogate cheetah mom for the first time. Two cubs were born Feb. 19 to 3-year-old mom Izzy, though the cubs’ biological mom is 6 1/2-year-old Kibibi.

Photo: Grahm S. Jones, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

First Cheetah Cubs Born as Result of Embryo Transfer

02.25.2020
National Zoo Research News
Photo by David Hau

Celebrate Women’s History Month at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

02.25.2020
American Indian Museum Public Programs
Frederic Edwin Church, The Natural Bridge, Virginia, 1852, oil on canvas, 28 x 23 in. The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Gift of Thomas Fortune Ryan.

“Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture” Explores Renowned Naturalist’s Impact on American Identity

Smithsonian American Art Museum Is the Sole Venue for the Landmark Exhibition

02.25.2020
American Art Museum Exhibitions

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