Smithsonian Spotlight

Through our Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, the dream of hanging work in the National Portrait Gallery comes true for two lucky artists.

Bugs! Scientists at the Smithsonian Entomology Department use cutting-edge technology to study and catalogue an ever-growing collection of insect specimens.

Celebrate our nation's past and its future in brilliant new light at the recently renovated Smithsonian Museum of American History.

What do the iPod, Michelle Obama's inaugural dress, and the View-Master have in common? Recognition by the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum.

Celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, home of fine art, dinosaurs, the Hope Diamond, and more.

How can something covering 71 percent of the earth's surface remain such a mystery to mankind? We look back on the history of deep-sea investigation, Austin H. Clark, and the steamer "Albatross."

Spend an evening in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, residing in the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery, and learn of the bitter feud it spawned.