We wish you a Happy National Inventors Day and invite you to check out the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History!

On January 19, 1858 renovations to the library located in the West Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building to increase space for books was completed.

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.

This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity, was one of the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. Fifteen Native American painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and dancers collaborated on the exhibition, which featured sculpture, performance, poetry, music, and video. Listen in to some of the audio recordings from the exhibition to get a sense of it today.

Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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.

It’s time to add to our list of our favorite digital items from the Archives.

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.

This American Archives Month, we teamed up with archivists and conservators around the Smithsonian for five Instagram takeovers to highlight the breadth of the Institution's audiovisual collections. 

A scrapbook isn’t always a collection of photographs and memorabilia. For C.V. Riley, it was a place to keep articles.