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Did you know that the Castle is the Smithsonian’s first and oldest building? It first opened its doors in 1855 and has witnessed countless moments in American and world history. The Castle closed ...
Trump's budget proposes "eliminating funding for the development of the National Museum of the American Latino," the ...
The Smithsonian Castle Building, in a colorized photograph taken by Alexander Gardner, was severely damaged in a January 1865 fire. Smithsonian Institution Archives Strategically located in ...
The White House's budget would pull all government funding from the Anacostia Community Museum and the planned National ...
The Arts and Industries Building (AIB) is the Smithsonian’s second oldest building and a national hub for creative exchange between ideas and objects from our past and our future. AIB opened in 1881 ...
For the first time in over 50 years, the Smithsonian Institution Building -- better known as the "Castle" on the National Mall -- is getting a facelift. Unfortunately for tourists and avid museum ...
The proposed cuts coincide with a White House effort to exert greater control over some of the country’s most prestigious ...
At the moment, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum is a digital site. Each site will now go through an evaluation process that will assess, among other things, capacity for a building ...
“People would say, ‘Well, this is the opportunity to craft a museum by Black people, for Black people, and I thought that was a mistake,” said Bunch, the current secretary of the Smithsonian Museum.
The Smithsonian Institution Building will close Feb. 1 for the first major renovation to the Castle since the late 1960s, officials announced Thursday. All parts of the building will undergo ...