Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 22-046
Smithsonian Facilities
Website Records, 2012-2020
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of two websites and one blog maintained by Smithsonian Gardens as they existed on March 16, 2020. Smithsonian Gardens is located within Smithsonian Facilities.
The Smithsonian Gardens website includes information about the gardens; educational resources and opportunities; special events and exhibitions; and the Smithsonian Gardens' collections, including those of the Archives of American Gardens.
The Smithsonian Gardens blog, hosted on WordPress, provides a behind the scenes look at the Smithsonian Institution's gardens and horticulture-related collections and exhibitions. The blog launched in February 2012.
The "Community of Gardens" website is a participatory archives to which users contribute images, stories, videos, and oral histories in order to preserve the history of gardens in the United States. The website includes information about the project, user-submitted materials, and terms and conditions. Due to technical issues, some image content is missing from this accession.
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
- Archives of American Gardens
- Community of Gardens (Website)
- Smithsonian Gardens
- WordPress (Electronic resource)
Subject
- Blogs
- Gardening
- Gardens
- Museum archives
- Museums -- Educational aspects
- Museums -- Public relations
- Web sites
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 22-046, Smithsonian Facilities, Website Records