News Releases

Spectacular Tsavorite Gemstone Goes on Public View in the National Museum of Natural History’s Gem Hall

National Tour Begins April 19 at Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing, Michigan

Bank of America Is the Presenting Sponsor of the Museum’s 2023 Centennial Year—and Sponsorship Includes Support for May Programming That Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month for Five Years

New Treatment Offers an Alternative to Antibiotic Treatment, Reducing Risk of Resistant Pathogenic Bacteria

Why Are Some Bacteria Making Environmental Mercury Even More Toxic?

Images Represent African American History and Culture From the 1840s Through the 1970s

First Major Smithsonian Exhibition To Examine the U.S. Intervention in Cuba and U.S. Expansion Into Guam, Hawaiʻi, Puerto Rico and the Philippines

32 Local Youth Begin First Cohort on Environmental Justice Leadership and Activism

Effort Connects More Than a Billion Objects in Scientific Collections Across 73 Museums in 28 Countries

“Baseball: America’s Home Run” Reopens March 25

Photographs, Essays Explore Ways Black People Create Empowering Futures

Exhibition Imagines Powerful Underwater World of African Spirits

Portrait Gallery Research and Conservation Project Used Getty Grant To Create a Microsite Featuring 1,800 Paper Silhouettes From Political Elite to Everyday People

Women’s History Month Donation Highlights Her Business Acumen and Achievement

A Literary Arts Initiative

Smithsonian Visionary Award Honors Artists Who Work in Metal