Results for "Museum stores"
- Blog Post
Too Many to Count
- Date: September 24, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, c. 1890, Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] One of the things people often want to know about photography at the Smithsonian is, “How many photographs do you have?” with the quick follow-up, “Have you counted all of them?” No one knows for certain, but statistical sampling suggests
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 07-001, Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Business Ventures Product Development and Licensing, Product and Contract Records, 1971-2005
- Date: 1971 1971-2005
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Business Ventures. Product Development and Licensing
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- SI History Chronology
NHB West Court Project Completed
- Date: December 4, 1976
- Webpage
How do I preserve my newspaper?
- Date: January 12, 2012
- Description: Learn about how to preserve historic newspapers and newsprint.
Who Wore What and When?
- Date: August 31, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Savage Beauty, the posthumous and retrospective exhibition of women’s fashions designed by Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art closed early in August. The record breaking event—an official attendance count of 661,509 visitors made it the eighth biggest show in the museum’s history—featured approximately one hundred ensembles drawn, primarily,
- Blog Post
On the Conservation of Champions
- Date: July 19, 2012
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: A look at the preservation of a box of Wheaties cereal featuring Native American Olympian, Jim Thorpe, how ordinary objects become museum icons, and the problem of food in museum collections.
The Mold…RETURNS! (Mad Scientist edition)
- Date: November 1, 2016
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Our annual creepy Halloween post returns, like the undead, and so many moldy oldie film franchises. A silly wink at a serious subject.
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John Kinard
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14623,size=300,left]Born in 1936 in Washington DC, John Robert Edward Kinard would become the first African American director of a Smithsonian museum at the age of 31. Kinard’s circuitous path into museum work took him from development work in Africa to community organizing on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a dilapidated theater on Nichols Street in DC’s
Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time
- Date: January 25, 2011
- 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
The Secret Treasure Vault that Might Have Been
- Date: September 20, 2012
- Description: During World War II, a plan to build a secret collections vault under a memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington, DC.
- SI History Chronology
NASM Launches Video Disc Program
- Date: 1984
Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies, Anyone?
- Date: September 1, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Earlier this year, I blogged about a recipe for “Elephant Skin and Ivory” (a black and white tinted candy) that I found in the 1984 National Museum of Natural History Docent Cookbook. Well, while researching the history of the same museum’s Insect Zoo for my recent blog post, I came across another recipe that I'd like to share—mealworm chocolate chip cookies.This recipe