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
Play the game of “Philanthropy” just like the robber barons do!
Continue reading The Giving Game: Is philanthropy just another way the wealthy exercise power?
A free, three-day educational conference offers virtual and in-person connections through online sessions, exhibitor tables, hands-on workshops, behind-the-scenes tours and a networking reception. Continue reading Smithsonian summit aims to help educators prepare for the nation’s semiquincentennial*
Vote Now for the Summer 2025 Windows Lock Screen! Voting closes Sunday, June 29. Continue reading Vote Now for the Summer 2025 Windows Lock Screen!
How Ronald Reagan helped elevate Disneyworld to America’s pantheon of honored patriotic pilgrimages. Continue reading Independence Hall, Gettysburg and – Epcot Center?
The power and strength symbolized by these silent sentinels have grown deep roots into our collective psyche. Continue reading Trees: Bridges Between Past, Present, and Future
How a nature-lover from Maryland wound up in the high prairie of Montana investigating not only “where the buffalo roam,” but also why. Continue reading Why I’m Tracking Bison Herds Across the Prairie
Vote now for the Autumn 2025 Windows Lock Screen. Voting ends Sunday, September 21st! Continue reading Vote now for the Autumn 2025 Windows Lock Screen
(Ed. note: We should note that it's never wise to stand behind a cow, even a buttery one. Cow pies never win blue ribbons.) Continue reading Behind the Butter Cow: A Look at the Renwick’s new State Fair exhibition
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
