Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the National Portrait Gallery's portrait competition, became one of the first female commissioned officers in the Navy WAVES, and was a volunteer at the gallery for 19 years bringing the museum experience to retirement homes. #Groundbreaker

The 1943 and 1944 letters of science journalist Emma Reh contain vivid descriptions of the flowers and local life she observed while living in Paraguay.

For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

Curator Emeritus Dr. Jane Walsh, Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, developed a specialty in pre-Columbian lapidary technology to better understand the technological advancements of ancient cultures. #Groundbreaker

The Smithsonian installed its first telephone service in the Castle in 1878 reflecting the Institution’s close relationship with inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

Research Anthropologist Dr. Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, uses bones to study the effects of environmental contaminants on people in the past and present, and directs the Smithsonian Institution Bio-Imaging Research Center. #Groundbreaker

Experience the outdoors during National Camping Month.

Curator of Oceanic Ethnology Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, is an expert on Tongan dance and was honored by the YWCA as a leading female scientist whose work increased the understanding of native cultures. #Groundbreaker

 We examine a long accepted, undocumented, but oft repeated account that the Smithsonian’s Parthenon plaster friezes had been transferred from the Corcoran Gallery of Art sometime in 1897.

How one of the earliest female pioneers in science caught the Smithsonian’s attention.