In 1846, the Smithsonian was established by Congress as an independent entity. For over nearly 180 years, the Smithsonian has welcomed millions of visitors each year to experience art, history, ...

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne,” an exhibition featuring Payne’s intricately detailed photography of America’s ...

There are no showtimes for this date. Travel with scientist Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez as he journeys to the largest machine ever built, the greatest scientific instrument ever created, the ...

State fairs have sparked the American imagination with their celebrations of agricultural bounty, mechanical innovations and skilled handcrafts since the first fair was held in 1841 in upstate New ...

The National Air and Space Museum will host its annual “Sally’s Night,” event Saturday, June 21, from 6 to 11 p.m. as part of the Smithsonian’s “Solstice Saturday” programming. Held each June around ...

With distinct alarm calls and yips, black-tailed prairie dogs are a highly social and communicative icon of the Great Plains. A new study published today in Animal Behaviour suggests other species may ...

Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is part of the Filmed For IMAX® program. • Closed ...

The Airbus IMAX® Theater at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center features the largest IMAX screen in Northern Virginia, towering six stories high. View directions and parking information » Showtimes are ...

In the 1990s, Sonny Hayes was Formula 1's most promising driver until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later the owner of a struggling F1 team convinces Sonny to return ...

Learn more about Open Access FAQ. Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can explore and reuse millions of digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections (2.8 million at February 2020 launch) ...

The planets, stars, and everything you can see are less than 5 percent of the universe. What is the other 95 percent? Dark Universe examines the invisible dark matter underlying galaxies that, ...