Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one museum we must visit every time we go to DC even though it doesn’t ...

It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

National Museum of Natural History The aptly named Monetaria moneta — or the money cowrie — is generally accepted as being the world’s first international currency .

Diana is what’s known as a “fossil preparator,” working in full view of the public inside the oblong, glass-enclosed FossiLab at D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

The canton for National Museum of Natural History is yellow featuring a dinosaur holding a plant leaf in its mouth. Contained within Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 66, Folder: 1 ...

The National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum have been next-door neighbors in Washington, DC for nearly 90 years—but until now, they’ve never shared so much as a ...

I don’t know why I was surprised when President Trump went after the Smithsonian Institution, in particular the National Museum of African American History and Culture — or as it’s more ...