Paulina (penguin) Wearing a Bow Tie, by Hilda Hempl Heller. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 13-197, Image no. SIA2013-05510.

Link Love: 5/22/2020

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history. 
May 22, 2020, by Deborah Shapiro

Smithsonian botanists offer a tweet tour of springtime flowers. [via National Museum of Natural History]

Experience a day at an art museum through the eyes of some very lucky Humboldt penguins. [via NPR]

A penguin wearing a bowtie looks to its right.

The Washington Post celebrates the Smithsonian and Library of Congress’s “volunpeer” heroes! [via Library of Congress]

Explore the Manhattan Project with the Bradbury Science Museum’s newly launched digital portal. [via infoDOCKET] 

Have your fortune told by 18th-century artist Charles Willson Peale! [via American Philosophical Society] 

The Institute of Museum and Library Services highlights its grant recipients’ digital projects in African American history. [via IMLS]

Say hello to your new white noise machine, courtesy of the National Zoo. [via National Zoo]

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