A Happy 172nd Birthday to the Smithsonian! 

Happy Thanksgiving from the Smithsonian Institution Archives! 

We look at the authors favorite glass plate negatives from a long term digitization project.

Astronomers travel far and wide to see solar eclipses but sometimes their best laid plans don’t work out..

Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations. 

A happy 171st birthday to the Smithsonian! 

The Smithsonian has a history of eclipse-ready public programming! How the Smithsonian has worked with the public in 1972, and today, to help visitors view eclipses safely.

Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

August is National Parks Month, but the Smithsonian has celebrated the National Park Service for decades! Enjoy a selection of national parks images from the Archives' collection.

Did you know that before the Smithsonian existed, there were two other institutions created for the promotion of science and diffusion of knowledge? Exploring the fate of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.