Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 21-007
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Website Records, 2006-2020
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of several web presences maintained by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum as they existed in January 2020.
The museum's primary website was crawled on January 8, 2020. It includes information about the museum and its educational programs, exhibitions, and events. It also includes a blog which launched in December 2006.
The National Design Awards subsite of the Cooper Hewitt's primary website was crawled on January 27, 2020. It provides information about the 2019 winners as well as the awards in general and related events.
The collections database website was crawled on January 27, 2020. It includes information about most of the museum's collection items and provides a variety of options for searching them. Due to technical issues, this accession may not include all data available on the live website at the time of the crawl and search functionality may be limited.
The online catalog maintained by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Shop was crawled on January 27, 2020. Product listings in this accession may be incomplete.
The Cooper Hewitt's GitHub account was crawled January 27, 2020. The account provides the museum with a space to share open-source technologies developed in-house. Software may not download or function properly from the crawled website.
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
Subject
- Art and design
- Art museums
- Blogs
- Decorative arts
- Museum exhibits
- Museum stores
- Museums -- Collection management
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Museums -- Public relations
- National Design Awards
- Open source software
- Special events
- Web sites
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 21-007, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Website Records