In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be ...

The Smithsonian's museums and zoo are now closed due to the government shut down. Tours of historic Washington, D.C. sites ...

Texas legislators accused the Smithsonian of potentially violating anti-lobbying laws. The Smithsonian told Congress moving ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of ...

T hree U.S. lawmakers from Texas are accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in "illegal lobbying" to block the ...

Moving the Discovery from Virginia to Texas could be risky for the fragile craft. After the space shuttle Discovery made its ...

The closures would affect some of the most popular tourist attractions in Washington, D.C.—including the National Museum of Natural History, the Air and Space Museum, and the National Zoo—which have ...

The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

In the first book of Secret Smithsonian Adventures, four middle-schoolers visiting the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum discover that someone is tampering with history. They travel through ...

A teenager was shot near the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall on Friday, with at least one bullet damaging a window of the museum. The teen, who was not ...

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the founding director of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C., returns ...

Kathryn Jones began to visit Washington's museums in January and didn't plan to make it her full-time pursuit, but it become ...