A lost hammer led to a buried Roman fortune that is still rewriting the final chapter of imperial Britain.

New exhibit offers a glimpse into the life of the "boy king." ...

A collaborative museum visit examines artifacts from ancient Egypt and beyond, including statues, inscriptions, and reused ...

Thanks to its largest-ever donation, the La Brea Tar Pits will now house the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research.

But the Smithsonian has long sought a higher mission than national storage. George Brown Goode, who ran the Smithsonian in ...

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is one part of McAuliffe's legacy. Jeanne Gerulskis, former executive director of the ...

A £1.5 billion lifeline is set to breathe new life into England's cultural heart, promising to save over 1,000 cherished ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

The May 21 opening features more than 200 artifacts from the wreck site, life-size reconstructions and stories of passengers ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...