Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its fossilized ...

The museum's artifacts include atomic bomb casings and part of the submersible that discovered the wreck of the Titanic.

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What has stood out most to me in the reopening of the Frick is the extraordinary response it has elicited,” director Axel ...

Molecular clues from collagen in old bones are teaching us about the lives, movements, and demise of Ice Age megafauna like ...

The Hispanic Society Museum and Library is featuring decades-old Kodachrome photographs of New York City Pride marches taken ...

Mattatuck Museum through July 6 explores how vacation and recreation became expected and enjoyed in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The River Discovery Center in Paducah wants community members to mark their calendars now for a Smithsonian exhibit to be displayed at the local museum later this year.

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The artists featured here weren’t overly concerned with anthropomorphization, striving instead to capture these creatures as ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

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