Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 13-230
National Air and Space Museum
Website Records, 2009-2013
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the National Air and Space Museum website and mobile website as they existed on April 22, 2013. The website includes information about visiting the museum's facilities, special events, exhibitions, collections, staff, donations, and membership as well as educational resources, histories of various aspects of the museum, press releases, annual reports, and online exhibitions. The Washington, D.C. museum, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, and the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility are all documented in this single website. The mobile website includes much of the same content, but its design is optimized for viewing on a mobile device.
Also included in this accession is the museum's blog, "AirSpace: Behind the Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum," which was crawled April 22, 2013. The blog provides a place for staff to write about their behind the scenes work from their own points of view. The blog was opened in March 2009.
In addition, this accession includes the "How Things Fly" website, crawled in two pieces on April 30 and May 1, 2013. The website explains the basic principles that allow aircraft and spacecraft to fly. It is a companion website to the physical exhibition of the same name.
Materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- AirSpace: Behind the Scenes of the National Air and Space Museum (Blog)
- America by Air (Online exhibition)
- Apollo to the Moon (Online exhibition)
- Business Wings (Online exhibition)
- Explore the Universe (Online exhibition)
- Exploring the Planets (Online exhibition)
- Fifty Years of Human Space Flight (Online exhibition)
- GPS: A New Constellation (Online exhibition)
- How Things Fly (Exhibition) (1996- : Washington, D.C.)
- How Things Fly (Website)
- Looking at Earth (Online exhibition)
- Milestones of Flight (Online exhibition)
- National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility
- National Air and Space Museum Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Out of This World (Online exhibition)
- Space Race (Online exhibition)
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
- Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age (Online exhibition)
Subject
- Aeronautical museums
- Astronautical museums
- Blogs
- Flight
- Fund raising
- Museum buildings
- Museum exhibits
- Museum publications
- Museum storage facilities
- Museums -- Collection management
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Museums -- Employees
- Museums -- Membership
- Museums -- Public relations
- Special events
- Web sites
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 13-230, National Air and Space Museum, Website Records