Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, which is a complex of 19 museums, as well as several research centers, was slated for $861.5 million in fiscal 2012.

President's budget reduces almost all cultural funding Jacqueline Trescott 2011

Dean brightened: We could see some of his work, he said, if we ventured to Washington, D.C., in the Lower 48, and found a place called the Smithsonian Institution.

The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

Dean brightened: We could see some of his work, he said, if we ventured to Washington, D.C., in the Lower 48, and found a place called the Smithsonian Institution.

The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

Dean brightened: We could see some of his work, he said, if we ventured to Washington, D.C., in the Lower 48, and found a place called the Smithsonian Institution.

The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

Dean brightened: We could see some of his work, he said, if we ventured to Washington, D.C., in the Lower 48, and found a place called the Smithsonian Institution.

The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

The Smithsonian Institution's internal watchdog plans to take a closer look at how the world's largest museum manages the money it generates from gift shops, magazines, books, and consumer product licensing deals.

The Center for Public Integrity: Smithsonian (Almost) Loses George Washington's Bed, Along With 10% of American History Inventory The Center for Public Integrity 2011

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History lost part of it, according to an inspector general's report.

The Center for Public Integrity: Smithsonian (Almost) Loses George Washington's Bed, Along With 10% of American History Inventory The Center for Public Integrity 2011

Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1907–1910.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Last December AAMD wasted no time in crying "censorship" when the Smithsonian Institution removed a controversial work by David Wojnarowicz from an exhibition at its National Portrait Gallery.

U.S. Museum Directors to Ai Weiwei: Drop Dead Eric Gibson 2011

Having a musician last that long and still play weekly gigs is a rarity and serves as a national living history lesson, says John Edward Hasse, curator of American music at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

As old as jazz itself, Lionel Ferbos keeps on jammin' 2011