The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

Organizers said commemorations will look to strike the balance between celebrating the nation’s founding ideals while ...

America is on the cusp of its 250th birthday next year, and party planning is well underway for celebrations on the National Mall in D.C ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

The new year is upon us, and with it, a whole new roster of planned exhibitions across the Smithsonian’s numerous museums and National Zoo, where the public can glimpse its two newest pandas, Bao Li ...

Art abounds on the National Mall. Thirty-five quilts by Black ... display next month at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Beginning in April, the Hirshhorn Museum and ...

President Biden signs a law allowing the first monument honoring the women's suffrage movement to be built on the National Mall. The monument is expected to be completed between 2032 and 2033.

The Smithsonian museums on the National Mall will be closed on Inauguration Day — Monday, Jan. 20 — in an effort to reduce pedestrian and vehicle congestion around the U.S. Capitol.

The closures affect prominently the sites along the National Mall, where most of the Smithsonian's free-admission museums are found. In past years, Smithsonian entities such as the National ...

In order to cut down on the amount of traffic in the area, most of the museums on the National Mall in D.C. will be ... The National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian American Art Museum and its ...