The museum's artifacts include atomic bomb casings and part of the submersible that discovered the wreck of the Titanic.

Conservationists with the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium are supporting local purple martins, North America’s largest swallows ...

Discover the rare agave plant bloom at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium's unique botanical unicorn event, 17 years in the ...

Double-sided benches — with bottle-green planks separated by a thin backrest — are a trademark of Paris, lining the bustling sidewalks of the Champs-Elysées and the tree-dotted banks of the ...

Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Pierre L’Enfant, the architect of Washington; boxer Joe Louis ... for the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. The zoo’s DC space is home to about 2,000 ...

Make the most of the DMV with our newsletter (The Washington Post ... For a recent Sunday drop, Freeman walked up to the National Zoo about 1 p.m. A couple of hours earlier, Freeman posted ...

No visit to Washington, DC is complete with a visit to at least ... which isn’t a museum but instead a group of 21 museums and a zoo, and its offerings include some of the city’s signature ...

Chris Tellez via Unsplash An orangutan bit a zookeeper’s hand through a mesh barrier, causing a serious injury, a Washington zoo said. The incident happened Saturday, March 29, at the Woodland ...

Visitors take pictures of male giant panda Bao Li in his enclosure at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, on Friday. ANNA MONEYMAKER/AFP They are "as iconic as the Washington ...

It’s panda-monium in DC ... Zoo is hosting a series of events called the “District of Panda” from Jan. 25 to Feb. 9, including a Lunar New Year event. For panda fans not local to Washington ...

You can finally see the new giant pandas at the National Zoo! Bao Li and Qing Bao made their ... watch the bears get used to their new home in DC, and also watch the relationships develop between ...