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 

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!

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

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.

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 150^th anniversary programming. She initially arrived in 1988 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Coordinator of Institutional Advancement. #Groundbreaker

If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?

Effects of milk on rodent skeletons from "Public Health" exhibition in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1930s.

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.

So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.