While the U.S. federal government is partially closed, our museums and the National Zoo will be OPEN through Jan. 1. If the partial shutdown continues beyond Jan. 1, all Smithsonian museums and the zoo will be closed starting Jan. 2.
Fact Sheets
Newsroom of the Smithsonian
Awards and Medals
Exhibitions
- 15th Anniversary of September 11
- Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia
- Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall: Artifact List
- Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall: GO FLIGHT Digital Experience
- Highlights of Thomas Jefferson Objects in the Smithsonian Collection
- Horatio Greenough’s George Washington
- Molina Family Latino Gallery
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Angola Prison Tower
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Edisto Island Slave Cabin
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Inaugural Exhibitions
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Southern Railway Car
- National Portrait Gallery 50th Anniversary: Advance Exhibition Schedule
- Political History Collections at the National Museum of American History
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Women's History: Artifacts on Display
- “Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait” Bios: Exhibition Curator and Lenders
- “American Visionary: John F. Kennedy’s Life and Times”
- “Americans”
- “Americans” Companion Book
- “Americans” Exhibition School Programs
- “America’s Presidents” Artist Bios
- “America’s Presidents” Exhibition
- “America’s Presidents” Exhibition Bio: David Skorton
- “America’s Presidents” Exhibition Bio: Kim Sajet
- “Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed”
- “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission” Object List
- “Franklin and the Nurturing of Science in Early America”
- “More Than a Picture”
- “Moving Beyond Earth” Curators
- “Moving Beyond Earth” Interactive Displays
- “Nation to Nation” Exhibition
- “Presidentes estadounidenses”
- “Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume”
- “Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume” Costume List
- “Rick Araluce: The Final Stop”
- “Suited for Space”
- “Tamayo: The New York Years”
- “The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World” Exhibition
- “Time and Navigation”
- “Time and Navigation” Interactives and Website
- “Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound”
- “Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound” Artist Bios
- “Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound” Museum Director and Curators
General Smithsonian
- Board of Regents Committee Assignments
- Buildings in the South Mall Master Plan
- Examples of Projects Supported by the Smithsonian Campaign
- Facts About the Smithsonian Institution
- Founding of the Smithsonian Institution
- History of the Smithsonian
- James Smithson Biographical Information
- Los Secretarios de la Institución Smithsonian
- Smithsonian Campaign—By the Numbers
- Smithsonian Collections
- The Secretaries of the Smithsonian Institution
- The Smithsonian Board of Regents
- The Smithsonian Institution Fact Sheet
Museums
- A History of the National Air and Space Museum
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Architectural History of the Renwick Gallery
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- imagiNATIONS Activity Center
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar Hazy-Center
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Chronology of Events
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Collection Highlights (Photos)
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Construction—Cool Facts
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Design and Construction
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Design Firms
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Installed Collection Items
- National Museum of African American History and Culture: Public Art, First Floor
- National Museum of African Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Museum of Natural History: The Dinosaur and Fossil Hall
- National Museum of the American Indian in New York
- National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall
- National Portrait Gallery
- National Postal Museum
- Renwick Gallery - Architectural History
- Revitalization of Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum: Key Artifacts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park
- The National Air and Space Museum Today
Programs
- Bei Bei Birthday Celebration Backgrounder
- Community of Gardens
- Digitization of Smithsonian Collections
- Earth Optimism Summit: Smithsonian Participants
- Education Initiatives for Military Families
- Education Initiatives—Smithsonian Learning Lab
- Education Initiatives—Summer Institutes: Teaching the Humanities Through Art
- Education Initiatives—Videoconferences with Students
- History of the São José Slave Ship and Site
- Nation’s T. rex Public Programs
- Richardson Symposium: Racial Masquerade in American Art and Culture
- Slave Wrecks Project
- Smithsonian Affiliations
- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
- Smithsonian Associates
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
- Smithsonian Latino Center
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Smithsonian “Think Water” Initiative
- The Smithsonian's Partnership with Kickstarter
Research
- Archives of American Art
- Bao Boa Departure FAQ
- Cerro Ballena Fact Sheet
- Cerro Ballena: Hoja de datos
- Early Sound Recording Collection and Sound Recovery Project
- Feathered Dinosaur, Anzu wyliei
- First in Flight . . . Still the Wrights
- Giant Panda Cub Developmental Milestones
- Museum Conservation Institute
- Museum Support Center
- Olinguito
- Smithsonian and Jamestown Rediscovery Partner To Reveal Identities of Four Lost Leaders of Jamestown
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Smithsonian Science Education Center
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute