From providing forensic wooden “fingerprints” to insights on structural engineering, the museum’s collection of rare and wonderful lumber is a prized scientific resource Erin Wunderlich At the ...

The Natural History Museum in South Kensington plans to open two spaces, one of which hasn’t been seen by visitors since ...

From the legendary Hope Diamond to a rainbow of colorful gemstones, a multigenerational bond between the Winston family and the Smithsonian transformed the museum’s world-renowned gem collection Emma ...

Miniature Japanese sculptures, called netsuke, from the museum’s anthropology archives available for the public to see at the new exhibit. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History opened an exhibit Nov.

The Trump administration is reviewing the National Museum of Natural History as part of a broad inquiry into the Smithsonian Institute. The museum's exhibits cover Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, ...

Natural history museums are crucial for conservation — and for communicating its importance to the public. But step through the ‘staff only’ doors, and museums look very different. In vaults and ...

The fantastical world of Pokémon owes much to natural history. Its creator, Satoshi Tajiri, wanted to recreate his childhood hobby of insect collecting in virtual form. Lead artist Ken Sugimori drew ...

If natural history museums can be said to have a problem, it's that they have too many specimens for any one person to see and not nearly enough exhibit space to show them off. The Florida Museum of ...

Enterprise content management systems (CMS) rarely have to deal with skeletons, fossils, and jars of aspic, but in west London one CMS is doing just that. London's Natural History Museum is completing ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the ...