Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="428" caption="At the Chicago Worlds Columbian Exposition in 1893, visitors ride in a gondola in the ‘Court of Honor.’ The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition, 1893, by Unknown
Description: Harvard's pigment collection. [via Collossal]Also with gorgeous colors, a 700+ page Dutch book from 1692 documenting "every color in the spectrum." [via Open Culture] A new online exhibit examining what it's like to work in the U.S. on a H-1B visa from the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center. [via Smithsonian Magazine] Later this year, scientists (including our own
Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.Today’s feature is from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Smithsonian coordinated all of
Description: This coming weekend muggles from around the world will be participating in the International Quidditch Association’s World Cup; but did you know that this growing sport may have a Smithsonian connection?
Description: We are excited to start the New Year with our first Call for Entries for the click! photography changes everything, an online exhibit that explores how photography influences every aspect of our daily lives. This month’s focus: History in the Making – the perfect opportunity to share your thoughts on the recent U.S. presidential elections and upcoming inauguration. Has
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Visit of Muhammad Ali to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, March 17, 1976, when he donated a pair of gloves and a robe to the museum for the "Nations of Nations" exhibition, 1976, Richard K. Hofmeister,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Image of a wall case displaying specimens from the Copper Queen Mine in Bisbee, Arizona, The case, part of the Exhibits Modernization Program, is located in the Hall of Gems and Minerals in the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, 1958, by Unidentified photographer,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="362" caption="The Midland skull, which was found in southwestern Texas in 1953, is on display in the National Museum of Natural History's North American Archeology Exhibit which opened in November 1962, The skull was identified as that of a female about 30 years old and is probably more than 10,000 years old, 1962, by Unidentified
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_7497,size=350,left][caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="402" caption="On August 20, 1957, a coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae Smitha, living fossil fish, is put on exhibit in the foyer of United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, 1957, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="338" caption="Patricia Nixon stands beside a mannequin dressed in her inauguration gown which has been placed in the exhibit of First Ladies Gowns at the National Museum of American History, c. early 1970s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 20, Folder 3, Negative
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