Smithsonian Voices

From the Smithsonian Museums

At the Smithsonian's National Design Museum, a Home Is What You Make of It

In a new exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, artists explore just what makes a space feel like home

an absentee ballot used during the Civil War

How the Civil War Spawned the Mail-In Ballot

Secretary Bunch and Melissa Chiu

Tracing a Century of History Through Art

Canal

Reflections From a Dutch National Reckoning

a classroom of students take instructions from their teacher

How the Smithsonian Is Educating the Next Generation

a person stands  in a decorated dress and vail on a beach with the sea behind them

Imagining an African Atlantis

an oil painting of a woman in black dress with an orange sky behind her

Who Claims the American West?