Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="While the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, is still under construction, the 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive is being moved into the building, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="The Alexander Calder sculpture outside the western facade of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, looking towards the Mall with the United States Department of Agriculture Building in the background, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="The 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive shown being moved into the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), while the building is still under construction, 1961, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Dr. David W. Scott, left, curator and later director of the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, with unidentified person, 1969, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313 Box 26 Folder 3, Negative Number: 94-4412."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Laborers can be seen working on the laying of a new floor of marble and terrazzo, according to the Watkins system, in one of the Northeast Range of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, On the upper half of the wall models of boats can be seen, Canoes can also be seen hanging from the
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Dr. Judith A. Blake, biological technician at the Smithsonian's new Molecular Systematics Laboratory operated by the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, MD, stores tissue samples from plants and animals at temperatures of -148 degrees Fahrenheit, 1990, by Harold E.
Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.