Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives launches a website refresh.

Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, has created numerous exhibitions on the arts of the Islamic world, and twice received the Smithsonian Secretary's prestigious research prize. #Groundbreaker 

As the Smithsonian Institution Archives works to create a new, comprehensive finding aid for Record Unit 452, take a look at some of the posters from this collection and learn about the history of the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), now the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

We answered your questions for 2017 #AskAnArchivist!

African art scholar Sylvia H. Williams, directed the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, 1983-1996, and was one of the few women, and the only African American woman, serving at the time as director of a major American museum. #Groundbreaker