Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and ...

The US Senate unanimously approved the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025 on December 10. The bill renews and expands the original 2016 legislation, which is set to expire in 2026, ...

The Smithsonian museums, National Gallery of Art and other sites that receive federal funding are announcing their reopening plans now that the government shutdown is over. While the financial impact ...

A letter to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch reiterates that federal funds are conditional on the organization turning ...

Join the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, for a series of three timely and wide-ranging online conversations about religion and ...

Lending art to the White House is nothing new for Smithsonian museums. In the 1940s, when the tradition began, the museums had a growing collection of artworks and limited gallery space. The White ...

L-R: “Head of Harihara” (mid-10th century), “The Goddess Uma” (10th century) and “Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)” (c. 1200); Image Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, ...

This will be the first return made by the museum under the Smithsonian's 2022 Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns policy ...