Category: What Gets Saved
Link Love: 6/23/2017
![Tojin ja-odori no zu / Chinese dragon dance, [between 1850-1900], Chadbourne Collection of Japanese](https://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/body-image-450/public/blog-attached-images/3g10363v.jpg?itok=VOuKXz6N "Tojin ja-odori no zu / Chinese dragon dance, [between 1850-1900], Chadbourne Collection of Japanese Prints, Library of Congress [LC-USZC4-10363].")
- Now available for download - Images of more than 2500 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings at the Library of Congress. [via This is Colossal]
- Moving to Washington! - The Arhoolie Records make their way to the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. [via The Mercury News]
- The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center goes to Hawai'i with ʻAe Kai: A Culture Lab on Convergence and which will feature the works of more than 50 artists, scholars and performers and will host an array of art installations, live performances and interactive maker spaces from July 7-9, 2017. [via Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center]
- More online goodies - 70,000 archival materials from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. [via The New York Times]
- The British Library hosts the launch of The Copyright Cortex, a new online, open access, resource dedicated to copyright and digital cultural heritage. [via europeana pro]
- Mark your calendars - The National Museum of American History's newly renovated west wing will open on June 28, 2017 with the exhibitions: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith; Many Voices, One Nation; Religion in Early America; and Within These Walls. [via National Museum of American History]
Link Love: 6/16/2017
- Books right to your door (no, not Amazon). Vintage bookmobiles and the history of the traveling library! [via Atlas Obscura]
- Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast returns with new episodes June 21st! Grab your headphones and catch up on Season One. [via Sidedoor]
- A new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum project looks to preserve and digitize 200 diaries written by Holocaust victims and survivors. [via the Associated Press]
- Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton talks with Michael Bloomberg, former New York City Mayor, about solving climate change. [via Smithsonian Second Opinion]
- Stop and smell the flowers: a history of America’s gardens, from Smithsonian Gardens’ education and collections manager Cindy Brown. [via the New York Times]
- How NPR’s archival team is working to preserve decades of stories, documenting American history. [via Current.org]
- Here Comes the Sun--and George Harrison’s long lost guitar solo that never made the final cut. [via Open Culture]
- Take a video tour of the Smithsonian’s collection of whale bones with National Museum of Natural History paleobiologist Nick Pyenson. [via NPR]
Link Love: 6/9/2017
- Ouch — the Society of Women Engineers has a collection of rejection letters sent to women attempting to gain entry to engineering programs. [via Atlantic]
- A new discovery of 300,000 year old remains of Homo sapiens shows that our species evolved in multiple locations on the African continent. [via NY Times]
- iNaturalist.org is launching an app that will help you identify plants and animals! [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- A look at the work of London's first professional tattoo artist. [via Independent]
- A new book, Double Exposure: Fighting For Freedom, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History examines the history of African Americans serving in the U.S. Military. [via NY Times]
- The Getty has published 300,000 images as IIIF (International Image Interoperability Format) which allows people to bring images from different repositories together online. [via The Iris]
- A new Dr. Seuss museum opened in Springfiled, Massachusettes. [via USA Today]
- How does one clean a 94 feet long, 21,000 pounds whale model? [via NY Times]
- Just why do medieval illuminated manuscripts feature knights battling not-so-intimidating snails? [via Colossal]
Link Love: 5/26/2017
- Entertaining "Page Not Found' 404's from museums. [via Hyperallergic]
- Paleontologist Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, used museum collections to determine the reason baleen whales became gigantic. Plus you can help transcribe specimen labels from our Fossil Marine Invertebrates collection! [via NY Times]
- Harvard archivists found what they believe is the earlies known recording of John F. Kennedy. [via Harvard Gazette]
- Pharo aims to make available millions of images from art historical photo archives online. [via Hyperallergic]
- NOAA now lets you virtually dive into 5 national marine sanctuaries. [via Verge]
- Smithsonian panda in heat alert! [via DCist]
- Knight Foundation just announced $1.87 million in funding to support new uses of technology to connect people with art. [via AAM blog]
- The slo-mo of ladybug wings unfolding is mesmerizing. [via NPR]
Link Love: 5/19/2017
- An early infographic explaining Earth in case of chance alien encounters, from 1972! [via Co.Design]
- A peek at the the 1st weather dataset collected by the Smithsonian in the late 19th century, and what it means about archival practices around data. [via Process History]
- How Chuck Berry's bright red Cadillac almost didn't make it to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via WAPO]
- An incredibly well-preserved dinosaur found in Canada. [via National Geographic]
- The Library of Congress dropped 25 million for free bulk download! [via LOC]
- A new library of over 40 hours of open science videos from the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision, funded by UNESCO. [via Mind of the Universe]
- A fascinating profile of Frances Oldham Kelsey, an FDA pharmacologist who helped prevent an epidemic of birth defects in the 1960s. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- Suffering from Kusama withdrawal? Watch a time lapse of the Obliteration Room from the Hirshhorn. [via WAPO]
- 1 of 113
- next ›
Produced by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. For copyright questions, please see the Terms of Use.
