The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill using this pen and ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has acquired the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady for its permanent collection. Likely dating from 1846, the recently ...

Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; photo by Norwood Photography.

Through collaborative research combining Western science with Indigenous knowledge, we delve into this animal’s genome to ...

There are no showtimes for this date. Planetarium tickets are not available online or shown here. A film of hundreds of millions of monarchs in their remote overwintering sanctuaries and along their ...

There are no showtimes for this date. Planetarium tickets are not available online or shown here. Experience the life-saving superpowers and extraordinary bravery of some of the world's most amazing ...

Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History.

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There are no showtimes for this date. Planetarium tickets are not available online or shown here. June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in ...

There are no showtimes for this date. Planetarium tickets are not available online or shown here. The giant-screen documentary adventure Hidden Universe takes audiences on an extraordinary journey ...

A first generation college student reaches for the stars at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.