Smithsonian museums on and near the National Mall will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, due to security, road closures, and other restrictions for the Presidential Inauguration. When you dine or ...

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With 21 museums and a zoo spread along the East Coast, the Smithsonian Institution has become the country’s richest repository of American history. From culture to science, animals to space ...

A needle-free injection system, a bug-watching garden camera, a wearable that helps with memory lapses and more were unveiled at the annual Las Vegas trade show ...

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“Historians do love anniversaries,” Anthea Hartig, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, observed the other day, in her mid-century-modern office. She ...