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    1. North Entrance of Arts & Industries Building

      Link Love: 8/26/2016

      • Date: August 26, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: An inside peek at the "Belle of the Mall" (aka our Arts & Industries building) which just received its new director. [via NPR]Less than 30 days until our new African American History and Culture Museum opens and its director, Lonnie Bunch, gives us some perspective on this historic event. [via WAMU]Sketch your way to finding the image you're searching for! [via The Verge]One

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    3. Exhibits staff at Work in the Natural History Building

      Sneak Peek 11/3/2014

      • Date: November 3, 2014
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Exhibits staff at work in the Natural History Building, June 26, 1962, by Jack Scott, Image Number: MNH-863F.

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      Happy paper anniversary?

      • Date: October 7, 2010
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_8465" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Beth Antoine, Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation, conducts research on the letter or copy press books of Secretary Spencer F. Baird, Courtesy of Nora Lockshin."][/caption] One year ago on October 8th, after several years of planning, waiting, and building, the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation

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    7. Where is the Smithsonian?

      • Date: January 2, 2014
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The simple question, "Where is the Smithsonian?," has always been a difficult one to answer.

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    9. Computer rendering of concentric pink and silver tubes

      Link Love: 4/21/2017

      • Date: April 21, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Get ready for this summer's big installation at the National Building Museum: Hive. [via WAPO]Want to play old school games like Frogger? The Internet Archive has a Mac game emulator for you! [via Wired]Produce art. [via Colossal]A series of tutorials from the American Alliance of Museums, Becoming a Data Startup (for museums). [via AAM]470,000 images from Europeana are now

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    11. Students who volunteered as subjects in the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test,” August 14-16, 1925. Left to right: Louise Omwake, Katherine Tait Omwake, Thelma Hunt, and Alice Haines.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 1 - Insomniacs

      • Date: August 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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      The Smithsonian’s First Garden

      • Date: May 31, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,

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      To Market, To Market

      • Date: August 14, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1885" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="U.S. National Museum, Street vendors at Center Market, by unknown photographer, 10/16/1909, Smithsonian Institution Archives RU79 Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, SIA2009-1992."][/caption] Interns and staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are digitizing historic

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    17. Exhibit Case Containing Presidential Artifacts

      Sneak Peek 2/15/2016

      • Date: February 15, 2016
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Exhibit case containing presidential artifacts in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, MAH-12912.

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    19. Air and Space Building

      Sneak Peek 2/9/2015

      • Date: February 9, 2015
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Northeast corner of the Air and Space Building, now known as the National Air and Space Museum, April 15, 1974, 74-6628.

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    21. Effie Kapsalis pictured with Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Effie Kapsalis

      • Date: December 20, 2022
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Digital strategist Effie Kapsalis was dedicated to building bridges between Smithsonian collections and audiences. In a Smithsonian career spanning nearly twenty years, Effie mobilized her colleagues to share more diverse stories, break down barriers to access, and fight for gender and racial equity in the cultural heritage sphere. Sadly, we lost Effie on December 11, 2022.

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    23. Plexus Installation, by Gabriel Dawe

      Link Love: 11/25/2016

      • Date: November 25, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Thankful edition!Artist Gabriel Dawe makes rainbows. [via Bored Panda]Our Arts & Industries building, the 1st U.S. National Museum, amazes many who visit the National Mall. Learn more about it!Some key things you should know about American Indians from the director of our National Museum of the American Indian. [via Washington Post]Colombian singer Carlos Vives is donating one

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