Description: A new understanding of the canine lineage brought to you by DNA and infographics. [via NBC News]A new open source platform was funded through IMLS for making historic newspapers accessible online. [via J. Willard Marriott Library]In the wake of Brexit, a new Migration Museum opened in London. [via artnet]You can travel the world with Smithsonian's National Anthroplogical
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Abram Lerner (Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), Columbian artist Fernando Botero, and Frances and Sydney Lewis (philanthropist, a retail company executive and trustee at Hirshhorn) are pictured, December 1979, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Israel's Shimon Peres and Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush looking at the National Air and Space Museum's World War II memorabilia with NASM Deputy Director Donald Lopez during a brief visit in September 1986, by Mark Avino, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in Washington, D.C. February 21, 1985, and because her flight was grounded an extra 10 hours by a forecast of fog, she got to see the National Air and Space Museum, 1985, by Dale Hrabak, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="At the Kenneth Snelson opening, Abram Lerner, left, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, stands talking to Joseph H. Hirshhorn next to an abstract sculpture by Snelson, June 1981, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9600, Abram Lerner Oral
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Image of Merle Crisler Foshag and her husband William F. Foshag, Curator in the U.S. National Museum's Department of Geology, The two are standing amid flowers, while on Foshag's scientific expedition to Tepoztlán, Mexico, 1929, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Visitors examine Antoine-Louis Barye's "Theseus Slaying the Centaur Biamor" in one of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's ambulatories, 1990, by Rick Vargas, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box 2 Folder August 1990, Negative Number: 90-8838-22."][/caption]
Description: Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-805.
Description: Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker
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