Ford Philanthropy has championed the Young Ambassadors Program since 2008, enabling more than 370 students to cultivate their ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum received a $10 million donation from Northrop Grumman to support the transformation of the museum’s building in Washington, D.C. In honor of the gift, ...

The simmering national issue that pitted southern planter “aristocracy” against northern democracy was quickly coming to a boiling point by the election of 1860. The greatest issue of debate was ...

Thomas McKenney, United States superintendent of Indian trade in Georgetown, then port of entry for the District of Columbia, conceived the idea of developing a government collection of portraits of ...

Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs. Cut + Paste showcases seventeen Japanese artists who pushed the limits of printmaking and photography and whose experimental works blur ...

Explore America and discover people, places, art, history, and other items related to Montana in the Smithsonian’s growing digitized collections.. Held in trust for the American people, the ...

The El Monte shop was one of the most egregious examples of sweatshop labor in the late twentieth century. However, many of its practices, such as indenturing workers, seeking labor without legal ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Kim Chun-gŭn (also known as Kim Jun-geun, Gisan, and Kisan) was a Korean painter specializing in genre scenes illustrating traditional Korean life ...

Event Highlights. Events will take place throughout 2025 and 2026 and include the following: The Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival returns to the National Mall from July 2–7, 2025 with the theme ...

Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...

Ronald Cortez is the Smithsonian’s Under Secretary for Finance and Administration | Chief Financial Officer. He oversees over 2,000 employees specializing in human and financial resources; information ...

The Nazi military leader Hermann Göring amassed his own personal collection of art stolen from museums and private homes. His collection totaled more than 1,000 items, valued at $200 million in 1945, ...