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It cost as much as a Mercedes, could only travel 79 miles, and was both the hero and villain of Hollywood. Only 10 years after it rolled into driveways, almost all were crushed. One remains operational … and its parked at The Smithsonian. A qualified antique, it’s still the car…

With a museum scene that's earned the nickname Smithsonian of the South, a notable restaurant repertoire and a boast-worthy beer scene, an unassuming North Carolina town has an abundance of built-in reasons to brag.

Scientists face a challenge: A troubled species rebounds thanks to restoration efforts, only to make things worse for others by preying on them or outcompeting them for food and living space.

The museum and J. Paul Getty Trust will digitize and make available material that documents African American life for most of the 20th century.

In southwest Nigeria, West Africa's only natural history museum serves as a world class facility for conservation of natural resources. Built in 1973 as part of the zoology department at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria's Natural History Museum was left abandoned for over 30 years before it was renovated and reopened…

Small, ancient sculptures that have been gathering dust in an Albuquerque storage box are returning home to Mexico

On a recent outing my wife and I took in a touring exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution titled “Righting a Wrong.” Within the modest confines of a single room at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, the exhibit conveyed an epic tragedy: the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans and…

CSIRO's national herbarium collection is being digitised

The National Women's History Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino were authorized by Congress in 2020.