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Pierre Terjanian, the museum’s current chief of curatorial affairs and conservation, will start in his new role in July.
Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.
The institution forces America to look at its full history. We’re supposed to learn from what we see — not pretend it doesn’t ...
Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural ...
Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural ...
The museum plans to showcase its collection of banking, investment, and currency memorabilia at the revamped Commonwealth ...
A heated email exchange between Richard Grenell, the interim head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and ...
The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.
The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.
Cuts to federal agencies and grants for museums and libraries will have a large impact on the Kentucky Humanities Council and ...
The president of the state’s Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and on Nantucket, is worried ...