“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says

A turf battle may loom on the National Mall, but secretary Lonnie Bunch hopes to limit the hurdles for institutions devoted to Latino culture and women’s history

Ranging from actor Lynda Carter and tennis star Billie Jean King to former US commerce secretary Penny Pritzker and television executive Abbe Raven, its members are expected to play a crucial role in fundraising

From astronomical observations to personal photographs, the 50,000-piece collection includes documentation of unrealised works that the artist's foundation hopes to one day complete

Venues in Washington, DC and New York will require masks and many will have reduced hours

National of Gallery of Art also plans to open its West Building in Washington, DC

The educational aide will be part of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History

The High Desert Museum, which has previously had an emphasis on natural history, holds important works by artists like Rick Bartow and Edward Curtis

Celebrating an anniversary, Arts and Industries landmark will revisit its beginnings as an incubator of new ideas

The institution unveils planned changes to its historic Castle and Arts and Industries Building

Museum joins other institutions in assailing protestors' rampage and hate-inspiring imagery as a threat to democracy and equality

Organisations and museums offer plenty of online art projects for parents

Museum curators chart the human angle of the crisis, but collecting material on recent events comes with ethical considerations

Bipartisan effort, decades in the making, permits Smithsonian Institution to move ahead with plans

Utah Republican says that such museums would “divide an already divided nation”

The programme includes webinars examining dealers and collectors

From the Smithsonian's award-winning Americans exhibition to virtual Indigenous art markets

Move by Washington, DC museums comes amid a wave of new US closures

Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, will succeed Lonnie G. Bunch III

After cancellation of project for V&A East, the institutions say they still plan to cooperate on an internship programme

After passage in the House, planners try to line up support for an institution that would fill in an incomplete US narrative

Hacking of Blackbaud software systems exposed hundreds of clients, including other US and UK nonprofits

Bill calls for an institution honouring the contributions of a population that numbers nearly 60 million

Goal of online portal is to spur dialogue about racism and its “corrosive impact”

Caroline Baumann was reportedly forced to resign from the New York museum after concerns raised about her 2018 wedding

The Washington institution also announces joint effort with London communities to train young adults

Ian and Annette Cumming set out to commission likenesses of people who would remain renowned

Museum officials say the decision is unrelated to protests over the Sackler family's ties to Purdue Pharma

As his new book is released, the new secretary of the Smithsonian Institution talks of extending its reach beyond Washington