Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 18-229
National Museum of National History
Website Records, 2015-2017
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of tweets using the hashtag "#ObjectsofWonder" between February 10, 2015, and March 7, 2017. Use of the hashtag was promoted on the microblog Twitter by the National Museum of National History (NMNH). Tweets using this hashtag referenced the upcoming exhibition "Objects of Wonder: From the Collection of the National Museum of Natural History" which opened on March 10, 2017. This accession represents the results of a search of Twitter on the "#ObjectsofWonder" hashtag, both by the museum and by the general public and was crawled on March 10, 2017. Some uses of the hashtag appear to be unrelated to the exhibition. The first use of the hashtag by NMNH was on September 16, 2016. 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
- Twitter (Firm)
- Objects of Wonder: From the Collection of the National Museum of Natural History (Exhibition) (2017- : Washington, D.C.)
Subject
- Web sites
- Museums -- Public relations
- Blogs
- Online social networks
- Social media
- Museum exhibits
- Natural history museums
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 18-229, National Museum of National History, Website Records