To mark the 2024 presidential election, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Picturing the Presidents: ...

Fiber has long inspired women artists, although their ingenuity with threads and cloth was often dismissed as domestic work ...

Across the Americas there are many different Native cultures, each with unique musical traditions. The National Museum of the American Indian and other branches of the Smithsonian include music and ...

Users can access the Smithsonian's collection data made by Smithsonian staff since 1846 via a GitHub repository. Detailed documentation is available along with the data formatted in .JSON. Please note ...

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is pleased to present a collection of 9 models that were created using images generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The launch of this collection ...

Explore collections related to women in music from across the Smithsonian.

A polygon is regular if it is uniform and its faces are all alike. The regular convex polyhedra are the five Platonic solids, which have been known since classical Greece. The ancient Greek ...

The Molina Family Latino Gallery has been nearly a decade in the making. “When we started contemplating a gallery, it was the gallery of no—no plan, no space, no project manager, no money,” explains ...

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Exploration reveals that our solar system is filled with amazingly diverse places that transform our understanding of Earth and worlds beyond. The Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery ...

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 ...

Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and ...