Smithsonian news

Global wellbeing organisation Therme Group US and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser have signed a deal to work together toward identifying a site for a ... More

Engineering group TAIT has announced plans to acquire Thinkwell Group, the global experience design and production agency. Thinkwell specialises in the masterplanning, design and production ... More

Smithsonian Open Access, an initiative to provide copyright-free access to millions of digital collection images and data, has been launched, with anyone now able to ... More

The Smithsonian Institute has announced a new partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) that will see the curation of a new gallery at ... More

Researchers at the University of Brighton in the UK have been experimenting with 3D printing technologies as a way of democratising cultural heritage, as well ... More

It's been another momentous year in the attractions industry and Attractions Management has been there reporting the big news all the way. Here, and in ... More

Gus Casely-Hayford, the British curator, cultural historian, broadcaster and lecturer, has been named as the inaugural director of V&A East – the museum's new expansion ... More

The Smithsonian and the Getty Research Institute are among the cultural institutions that will soon be able to display a unique archive of images of ... More

The Smithsonian Institution’s board has elected Lonnie G. Bunch III as the organisations new secretary. Bunch, the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ... More

Temporary exhibitions and geopolitical changes continue to serve as key attendance drivers for museums in Europe, which remains the global market leader for attendance in ... More

Two American Civil War institutions in Richmond, Virginia, have merged to form a new museum that aims to present every perspective on the 19th Century ... More

Google Arts and Culture has launched a massive online science museum platform with a number of museums, curators and archivists in 23 countries around the ... More

Ground has been broken on a new US$5m (€4.36m, £3.81m) science centre in Charleston, West Virginia. Set to open in Q3 later this year, the ... More

Bosses at Smithsonian, the world’s largest museum, research and education complex, will have been pleased to hear that the US government ended its shutdown on ... More

The body representing tourism in the US, has said that the ongoing shutdown of the US government is starting to impact the travel sector. Worth ... More

The latest Attractions Management News Flash Video is now live! In this broadcast, Puy du Fou breaks ground on first park in Spain, Great Wolf ... More

The Smithsonian’s collection of museums and galleries remain closed to the public this week as the US federal government partial shutdown entered its 17th day ... More

A new memorial in tribute to the service of Native Americans in the US Armed Forces will be built at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ... More

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has unveiled plans to create two interconnected sites at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – a brand-new museum at ... More

The annual Museum Day in the US, organised by the Smithsonian Institute, kicks off across the country tomorrow (22 September), with more than 1,500 attractions ... More

Princeton University has selected Sir David Adjaye and Cooper Robertson to lead on the redesign and expansion of the school’s historic art establishment. The collaborators ... More

Kirk Johnson, museum director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, has announced its David H. Koch Hall of Fossils will ... More

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture will be welcoming Wakanda to its hallowed halls, after acquiring the iconic Black Panther costume ... More

For museums to succeed, they must adapt to the ever-expanding presence of artificial intelligence. That was the message delivered to delegates at the MuseumNext European ... More

London mayor Sadiq Khan has set out a £1.1bn vision for East Bank at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – a brand new masterplan for the ... More