Art galleries and museums build their collections in a number of different ways. One of these lies in the form of bequests ...

Stefano Giovannini for N.Y.Post “It’s nice to have a picture, a physical picture, rather than something on your phone,” 23-year-old James Smithson, who was visiting New York City from the UK ...

The signature of Elizabeth Macie, James Smithson’s mother, on the Hungerford Deed, 1787, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 19-150. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

Wealthy British globe-trotter James Smithson (1765-1829) had amassed an estate worth roughly $500,000 at the time of his death and ordered that all of his assets be inherited by his nephew ...

The newly recovered 1787 Hungerford Deed, detailing a contentious squabble over property and prestige, can now be viewed in a new virtual exhibition Alice George The 1787 Hungerford Deed, donated ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

The Smithsonian Visitor Center in Washington DC is located in a beautiful red sandstone building known as "The Castle". Learn ...

The Institution was founded in 1846 with funds from the Englishman James Smithson (1765–1829) according to his wishes “under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase ...