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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

As a rule, textiles experts don’t tend to get involved in public spats. They tend to spend most of their time in darkened ...

The British Museum made headlines in 2023 when it announced items from their collection had been stolen. The majority of the stolen pieces were small gems and jewelry kept in a storeroom, and none ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Science Museum Oklahoma is hosting homeschool families for a special HomeSchool Day on January 15. The zoo says Oklahoma homeschool families from across the state will be ...