The Smithsonian Institution, also known simply as the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the government of the United States
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- Pontotoc County Historical Society presents first Smithsonian Exhibit program
Leah Kemp, director of the Fred Carl Jr. Small Town Center at Mississippi State University, will present the first of five programs that are a part of the Smithsonian Institution ...
- The Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum Receives a Monumental Makeover
Following six years of renovation, a revitalized National Air and Space Museum with a new facade and building systems will reopen later this year.
- Taking the kids: To the Smithsonian museums
The next time you visit Washington, D.C., say a big thank you to James Smithson. Who? The British scientist never even visited the United States, but when he died in 1829, he left a huge pot of gold ...
- LGBTQ+ Employees at the Smithsonian Say the Institution Is Canceling Drag Events
Workers at the Smithsonian Institution say they’re concerned about censorship amid an “audit” of drag shows hosted by the organization, following a controversial oversight hearing last year.
- Smithsonian cancels drag events as LGBTQ+ employees decry censorship
Republicans called out the Smithsonian for its LGBTQ+ programming and now events are getting mysteriously canceled.
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- This Newly Deciphered Papyrus Scroll Reveals the Location of Plato’s Grave
But thanks to the scans, we now know he was buried in a garden in a private area, near the sacred shrine to the muses.” Some 2,000 years ago, the famous philosopher’s burial was recorded on a papyrus ...
- Stories From The Vaults (2007) Season 2 Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Paramount Plus
Season 2 follows Tom Cavanagh, who goes to the Smithsonian Institution and discovers its rarest treasures. He also has conversations with experts on the collection of artifacts and what can be done to ...
- The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean
A coral that lived deep in the ocean about a half-billion years ago has a glimmer in common with some of today’s fish, squid, octopuses, jellyfish, even sharks.
- Bioluminescence likely originated in Octocorallia 540M years ago, study finds
New finding set a record for the earliest known bioluminescence among the Octocorallia group of Anthozoa traced back to the Cambrian era.
- Why Images of Ghosts Have Endured in Japan for Centuries
Foreboding depictions of this Japanese ghost story and others like it populate the “Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints” exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ...
