The Bigger PictureBlog Posts Latest Articles: Sneak Peek 7/29/2019 July 29, 2019 by Marguerite Roby Section of Vertebrate Paleontology staff of the United States National Museum, with research associate Oliver Perry Hay, and assistant curators Charles Whitney Gilmore and James Williams Gidley, 1910s. Link Love: 7/26/2019 July 26, 2019 by Deborah Shapiro 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. Going Wild with Golden Lion Tamarins July 25, 2019 by Jennifer Wright In 1984, the National Zoo began reintroducing golden lion tamarins to the wild resulting in a conservation success. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jackie Swift July 24, 2019 by Emily Niekrasz Jacquetta (Jackie) Swift, Repatriation Manager, National Museum of the American Indian, 2003–present, supervises the domestic and international repatriation program and develops and implements repatriation policies and procedures at the museum. #Groundbreaker Looking Towards the Future: An Audiovisual Preservation Readiness Assessment July 23, 2019 by Alison Reppert Gerber The Smithsonian Institution Archives has been spending a lot of time looking at our audiovisual preservation practices. Check out the results from our recent assessment! Sneak Peek 7/22/2019 July 22, 2019 by Marguerite Roby Aerial view of the National Mall looking east from the Washington Monument during its first stage of building towards the U.S. Capitol, with the Department of Agriculture building and gardens, the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, and the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, in view, circa 1881. Link Love: 7/19/2019 July 19, 2019 by Emily Niekrasz 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. Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor July 18, 2019 by Emily Niekrasz We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Alice Green Burnette July 17, 2019 by Emily Niekrasz Alice Green Burnette, Assistant Secretary for Institutional Initiatives, 1989–96, managed the $200 million campaign to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington and led marketing efforts for Smithsonian’s 150th anniversary programming. She initially arrived in 1988 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Coordinator of Institutional Advancement. #Groundbreaker So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander? July 16, 2019 by Pamela M. Henson If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander? Pages« first‹ previous…616263646566676869…next ›last »Produced by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. For copyright questions, please see the Terms of Use.