Featuring some 80 artifacts, a show at the Wolfsonian–Florida International University revisits these exhilarating, forward-looking expositions, from 1850s London to 1960s New York and beyond.

The Smithsonian was founded after a benefactor’s unexpected gift. Its mission has been ambitious—and sometimes politically embattled.

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art charts the development of astronomical knowledge across continents before and after the Scientific Revolution.

While protests at university campuses since October 7, 2023, have earned appropriate notoriety for their violence, tactics, and support for...

Yale University’s museum, which recently completed a four-year reconstruction, is now bigger and free to visit—and yet, caught up in the controversies of the field, it’s evidently skeptical of the very notion of natural history.

At Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, an exhibition examines the legacy of designer Henry Dreyfuss and the fascinating histories behind many of the everyday symbols that connect people throughout the world.

A traveling exhibition currently in New York looks back at the world’s losers, misfires and flops, with the principal aim of celebrating failure’s virtues

The exhibitions and displays in the American Museum of Natural History’s new addition highlight the connections among all living things, including humans.

In a new space of more than 50,000 square feet and featuring scientific projects, artifacts and artworks, the Massachusetts museum poses plenty of fascinating questions while making a few questionable assertions along the way.

The Smithsonian museum’s newly renovated west wing features eight exhibition spaces that tell a stirring, diverse American story of ingenuity and the enduring thrill of flight

In our era of cancellations and topplings, censorious declarations and virtue signaling, recantations and exorcisms, it’s almost possible...

‘Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex,’ a huge new building devoted to near-future space travel, is just the latest—and least successful—of NASA’s celebratory visitor offerings

The work at the center of the show at the Huntington Library is a paean to the wonder of human advancement.

The newly designed display at the American Museum of Natural History is as eye-catching as it is educational.

Taking the winged creatures as its primary subject, an exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art examines the intersection of natural history and colonialism.

Images of ancient artifacts made using magnification, X-rays and more are aesthetically pleasing and scientifically illuminating

How the Prussian explorer, naturalist and polymath taught America about itself.

An exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum argues that much of today’s Western food culture is rooted in France, during the period from 1650 until the 1789 Revolution.

At the "New York Times", freedom of speech gave way to group pressure, and debate turned into intimidation. Why I left the paper five years ago.

The newly reopened Maine Mineral & Gem Museum takes an enlightening, local approach to the story of deep time.