From the legendary Hope Diamond to a rainbow of colorful gemstones, a multigenerational bond between the Winston family and ...

This World Whale Day, take a look inside of the National ... as the museum’s marine mammal curator. Randall Kremer, NMNH Whales have long been a focus of the Smithsonian’s natural history ...

The museum is larger than 18 football fields and is home to the largest natural history collection in the world. There is no public parking facility for Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. A ...

Friday, June 18, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History opens back up after closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. You ...

The National Museum of Natural History welcomed visitors again Friday, adding to the list of Smithsonian museums reopening this summer. The hours are a little different at first: Wednesdays ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has reopened its dinosaur and fossil hall, drawing to a close a project that began in 2014. Now renamed The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will put the “Lion of Merelani,” which is one of the most finely detailed colored gemstones in the world, on public view starting Thursday.

A Native American family visiting the Smithsonian Institution in ... story told alongside rocks and fossils at the National Museum of Natural History, where the original Americans were an object ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are free to visit, but fees do apply for the Butterfly Pavilion ...