Description: The Archives actively promotes a safety culture for both staff and collections. A comprehensive emergency preparedness and recovery manual is maintained that covers prevention efforts, evacuation procedures, emergency response staff responsibilities, salvage operations, and post-disaster assessments. Every two years, the manual is reviewed and revised as needed. An overview of
Description: Despite my long experience responding to many an incident affecting cultural heritage infrastructure and collections, since 2016, I have gained valuable experience living through the Atlantic hurricane season from the perspectives of both a professional immersed in the disaster lifecycle (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation), and the individuals, businesses, and
Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.
Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.