The institution cited “unforeseen circumstances”, leaving angry participants with debt and many unanswered questions

Yao, who was picked to lead the new Smithsonian museum through design and construction, said she needs to prioritise her family

The new education annex of the National Air and Space Museum will be funded through a $200m gift from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

The annual gathering organised by the American Law Institute and co-sponsored by the Smithsonian took place recently in Philadelphia

Ngaire Blankenberg quietly left the institution at the end of March

The Washington, DC, institution wants to better connect with Asian American communities

Nancy Yao, the director of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America, will take the helm at the in-development Washington, DC museum in June

Museums are stepping up efforts to return physical objects to their original owners—but repatriation policies often do not consider the digital information associated with them

The artefacts will go on view at the National Museum of Asian Art, rather than be returned to Yemen, due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis there

The winner of “The Exhibit” will receive $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum

As Black History Month begins in the US, arts administrator and historian Tsione Wolde-Michael gives three key points for institutions to consider

Tsione Wolde-Michael, director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the first Black leader of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Restitution Study Group have lost their first legal battle but insist the case is still pending

The donation is the museum’s first corporate gift, from Zurich-based insurance giant Swiss Re

The project’s architect, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, told attendees at the celebratory event that he repeatedly thought the project would be abandoned due to opposition

The renovation, to be executed in part by the architecture firm that designed the building’s original construction in 1974, comes after a contentious project to renovate its sculpture garden

The site selections must be approved or rejected by the US Congress by the end of the year

The National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum marked the return of the sculptures with a ceremony in Washington, DC

Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin introduced legislation to establish the National Museum of American LGBTQ+ History and Culture within the Smithsonian Institution

The institution is welcoming public feedback on proposals from five anonymous architecture firms bidding for the project on the National Mall

The historic interior, with its elaborate avian ornamentation, has undergone months of cleaning and restoration to shore up worn elements and return others to their original lustre

The funds will cover nearly the entire cost of commissioning official portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery

The institution will announce the selected Washington, DC sites for the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum by the end of the year

The new policy, adopted by all Smithsonian museums on 29 April, will allow each institution to tailor it to their particular collections and provenance considerations

The long list of possible locations also includes the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building

Restitution agreement must still be approved by the museum's Board of Regents

Jorge Zamanillo, currently the executive director and chief executive of HistoryMiami Museum, will lead the new Washington, DC museum through planning and construction

The Smithsonian commissioned the composer to create a performance responding to an exhibition of objects from the illustrious Tibetan Buddhist art collection of Alice Kandell

An ongoing Indigenous protest movement is forcing museums across North America to confront a pressing question - who really owns the land on which they stand, and what should they do about it?

‘Futures’ inaugurates the renovated Arts and Industries Building with an array of technological wonders ranging from the prosaic to the otherworldly