The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has been located on the National Mall since 1974, but before that, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn spent years considering which city or country the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden would call home.

Staff from Office of Computing Services, Raymond Shreve and Keith Laverty, with William Henegan of the Accounting Office, with new computing equipment for use in the implementation of the Smithsonian Institution Financial Management Information System (SIFMIS), May 10, 1978, by Richard Hofmeister.

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2018 was a busy year for born-digital collections at the Archives

Dr. Mercedes López-Morales has been an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 2012. She researches the detection and characterization of exoplanet atmospheres and serves as a leader on multiple international projects. #Groundbreaker

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Museum visitors at National Museum of Natural History shop, November 3, 1977, by Richard Hofmeister.

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.

See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.