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The total damage from Hurricane Helene to North Carolina – be it physical, psychological or economic – is difficult to quantify. But the numbers reported by the Office of State Budget and Management are harrowing: over 100 deaths, US$59.6 billion in damages and thousands of homes destroyed, as of Dec.…

One is even built into an old elevator shaft in a downtown alleyway – Katherine Roth explores

"Why isn't there a Smithsonian-level institute dedicated to the study of the culture and science behind food?"

“The Endless Summer” meets Ken Burns is how Michael Fowlkes imagined this documentary, one filled with compelling vintage footage and photos.

NASA's space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos once pledged that if his company's first rocket to reach space and land vertically back on Earth survived, he would put it in a museum. He has made good on his word.

The Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Walter Mercado's cape

The cheering, clapping and speechifying are over. Historians from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have returned after their trips to the 2024 political party conventions to collect materials – from balloons to banners to blinking wristbands – at each of them. For the last in a series of…

At the 2024 Democratic National Convention alongside politicians and delegates from across the country are political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, who are collecting what museum curators call “ephemera” – items that people wear, carry, hand out, display or otherwise use during the convention.

Three political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are heading to Chicago and the 2024 Democratic National Convention soon to collect stuff – or as the professionals call it, ephemera: everything from balloons to tickets to articles of clothing. The Smithsonian’s political campaign collection includes items…

"I feel so lucky!" Blake Lively pays tribute to Britney Spears by wearing her 2002 dress on the premiere of the movie It Ends With Us. The post Blake Lively Wears Britney Spears’ ‘Actual’ Dress To It Ends With Us Premiere: “It Should Be in the Smithsonian” first appeared on…