The Airbus IMAX® Theater at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center features the largest IMAX screen in Northern Virginia, towering six stories high. Getting Here FAQ Group Sales Showtimes are published on ...

April is Arab American Heritage Month. Americans of Arab heritage have advanced the nation’s achievements in diplomacy, science, technology, as well as in art and culture. In 1962, Dr. Alixa Naff set ...

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The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

A tour of the flowering plants : based on the classification system of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group / texts and photographs by Priscilla Spears ...

Forest trees of the Pacific slope With a new foreword by Woodbridge Metcalf and a new table of changes in nomenclature by E. S. Harrar ...

We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” Thomas Paine proclaimed in the pamphlet “Common Sense,” his argument ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Monday, July 14, four museums on the south side of the National Mall are closed due to an HVAC issue. See Plan Your Visit for details.

A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, ...

The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

Author Moynihan, M Subject Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Category Historic Images of the Smithsonian Notes Moynihan, a renowned animal ...