Description: Natural history specimens and ethnographic artifacts were among the earliest collections of the US National Museum. In 1910, the National Museum of Natural History building opened to showcase these collections. Wings were added in the 1960s, and a collections storage facility in Maryland opened in 1983 to help house the National Museum of Natural History’s 126 million objects.
Description: African American communities have celebrated Juneteenth for more than 150 years. When did the Smithsonian begin hosting programs to commemorate the nation’s second independence day?
Description: Check back to view collections that have been digitized through the Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative. For now, explore YouTube clips from the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Archives of American Art, and the Human Studies Film Archives.