Description: Despite another year of telework and limited physical access to our collections, the Smithsonian Institution Archives has continued to serve our researchers and share more of our collections with the public.
Description: Lora Moran-Collins, 3D Studio Supervisor at Smithsonian Exhibits, made dioramas, mannequins, and models of horses, sea lions, dogs and more for displays across the Smithsonian from 1981 to 2017. #Groundbreaker
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Anthropology Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, The front exhibit case, which was part of the Polynesian ethnology exhibit, shows a life group of indigenous people of the Samoan Indian group with native artifacts, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic
Description: Tree O'Donnell and Mike Friello of Office of Exhibits Central provide a fiberglass and pigmented polyester resin facial to Uncle Beazley, a 22-foot long replica of a dinosaur triceratops, 81-6787-23A.
Description: Documenting the history, programs, and activities of the Smithsonian Latino Center through the capture of their websites and their other online sites.
Description: A secret trash archive in New York City's Sanitation Department? [via Atlas Obscura]MoMA released 65,000 works of early 20th century modernists online. [via Open Culture]NOT for lunchtime browsing; the Mütter museum's new website gives you a close look at diseased bodies and "terrifying surgical instruments." [via Mental Floss]The Library of Congress is focusing on preserving
Description: Impacting the National Air and Space Museum with her caring attitude and dedication to her work in the Building Management Department, Annie Sullivan is an individual to be remembered.
Description: From the point in 1838 when the United States Congress accepted James Smithson’s bequest, it was recognized as a cultural resource, a public trust held by the federal government. Smithson had stipulated that the funds be used for an “establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Being a cultural resource set aside for public use, the government bore the
Description: In honor of National Scrapbooking Month, the Archives highlights the scrapbook of William and Lucile Mann from their trip to Argentina in 1939.
Description: Filmmaker Karen Loveland, produced documentaries related to Smithsonian exhibits for over 30 years and won several Emmy's including one for "Celebrating a Century" about the 1876 bicentennial. #Groundbreaker
Description: When I first applied for an internship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I admittedly did not know much about it. For my internship, I was asked to make a video that would explain to the general public what the Archives was, as well as what resources it could offer them. On my first day here I was told that the Archives held the records and history of the Smithsonian
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