Save the Date! The 22nd annual Smithsonian Staff Picnic is October 28 Continue reading Save the Date! The 22nd annual Smithsonian Staff Picnic is October 28
If you work in advancement, visitor services, exhibitions, or interact with our constituents in any way, JAMES is coming to make your life easier. Continue reading Introducing JAMES: The Smithsonian’s new CRM system to power engagement and collaboration
Happy National Zookeeper Week (July 21 – 26)! Join us in celebrating the dedicated professionals who care for animal ambassadors at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Continue reading National Zookeepers Week 2025
Congratulations to Steven Paton! Continue reading Congratulations to Steven Paton!
Everything you ever wanted to know about our country’s most iconic and stirring symbol. Continue reading She’s a grand old flag
Red, white, and true? Learn more about stories of freedom from our collections and put your knowledge to the test by taking our Independence Day quiz! Continue reading Red, white and true?
Everything you need to know about the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, including the answer to the always-critical question: What’s on the menu? Continue reading Your guide to the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Most people try to climb up the career ladder, but Laurie Penland chose to explore the depths instead during almost 30 years with the Smithsonian. Continue reading Smithsonian’s SCUBA Mom Hangs Up Her Fins
Not really. Does anyone really love the lowly leech? (Other than another leech, of course.) Find out more about how these blood-sucking parasites have wormed their way into medical practices, performance art, and EVERY human cavity. Continue reading Bloodsuckers! Or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Leeches”
From surprising squirrel migrations to islands popping up out of nowhere, the organization’s scientists tracked strange events as they happened Continue reading A Peculiar, Short-Lived Office at the Smithsonian Once Explored Reports of Bizarre Natural Phenomena
Save the Date! The 22nd annual Smithsonian Staff Picnic is October 28 Continue reading Save the Date! The 22nd annual Smithsonian Staff Picnic is October 28
Secretary Bunch explores how we must engage young people if the Smithsonian is to “have tomorrow, bright before us, like a flame.” Continue reading The Kids Are Alright
More than $2.5 million in grants has been awarded to fund projects ranging from exposing little kids to nature, the link between movement and emotional wellbeing and building a robotic telescope. Continue reading 2025 Together we Thrive
Melanie Adams will serve as interim director beginning August 26. Continue reading Director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum is stepping down
