In 1927, the Smithsonian held a conference to plan for the Smithsonian’s future.

Curator of Latino art, Dr. Taína Caragol, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, aspires to: "My goal at the Portrait Gallery has been to make sure the contributions of Latinos to U.S. history are properly represented in the museum." #Groundbreaker

We launched a new website about a group of mid-1800s naturalists who explored the outer reaches of the United States collecting for major American institutions, but returned to the Smithsonian's Castle for some serious fun.

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C & American history.

A look back at the 1998 Smithsonian Visual Identity Program designed by Chermayeff & Geismar.

Outgoing Director, Anne Van Camp, Smithsonian Institution Archives, developed economic models for long-term digital  record  preservation on NSF’s Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, and she greatly increased access to and stewardship of the Archives’ collections.  #Groundbreaker

Help us transcribe scientific field books of the tropics with the Smithsonian's crowdsourcing platform, Smithsonian Transcription Center.