Results for "Gardening"
- Blog Post
Archives Puzzles: Gardening Like it’s 1976
- Date: March 29, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Link Love: 10/30/2015
- Date: October 30, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Lord of the Rings fans! A newly-discovered map annotated by Tolkien. [via Open Culture]A last call for Archives Month to contribute your stories and memories of gardens and gardening to the Community Gardens digital archive. [via Smithsonian Gardens]Gorgeous fly-throughs of 17th Century London before The Great Fire from a talented group of students at De Montfort University. A
- Blog Post
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,
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009629, Smithsonian Gardens, Smithsonian Gardens Oral History Interviews, 2011
- Date: 2011
- Creator: Smithsonian Gardens
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Historic Pictures
Smithsonian Gardens
- Date: September 5, 2018
- Description: Smithsonian Gardens was established in 1972 as the Horticultural Services Division of the Office of Plant Services to provide appropriate landscaping outside of Smithsonian museums and decorative greenery inside Smithsonian buildings. Today, Smithsonian Gardens is an accredited museum that provides living classrooms and urban sanctuaries for Smithsonian visitors.History of
- Blog Post
The Enid A. Haupt Garden
- Date: January 20, 2015
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look at the Enid A. Haupt Garden as it was established in 1987.
- Historic Pictures
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opened in 1974 to house the modern art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. Located west of the Arts and Industries Building, in the first truly modern building on the National Mall, the Museum and Sculpture Garden feature artists such as Calder, de Kooning, and Rodin. History of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenAdditional
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Smithsonian Gardens
- Date: September 4, 2018
- Description: During debates about the Smithsonian’s founding, the idea of using James Smithson’s bequest for a botanic garden was included in several drafts of the bill considered by Congress. In 1850, President Millard Fillmore commissioned America’s preeminent landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing to design plans for the National Mall, including grounds around the Smithsonian Castle,
Link Love: 7/17/2015
- Date: July 17, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- Gallery
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Date: September 16, 2013
- Description: S. Dillon Ripley, the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian, wanted the Smithsonian to have a contemporary art museum. He worked tirelessly to persuade Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899-1981) to donate his collections to the Smithsonian. On November 7, 1966, the collections of Hirshhorn officially came under the auspices of the Smithsonian. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Date: April 14, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
The Painter and the Poet: Creative Writing at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: Pieces by aspiring poets—and a look at the artwork that inspired them—from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s writing workshops.