Results for "Museum stores"
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Link Love: 11/1/2013
- Date: November 1, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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See Here: 4/1/2011
- Date: April 1, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Dr. Judith A. Blake, biological technician at the Smithsonian's new Molecular Systematics Laboratory operated by the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, MD, stores tissue samples from plants and animals at temperatures of -148 degrees Fahrenheit, 1990, by Harold E.
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Link Love: 5/27/2011
- Date: May 27, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening
- Date: September 15, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.
Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action
- Date: April 28, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.
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Down at the Drive-In
- Date: August 4, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1679" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Untitled (Drive-In: Circle Theatre), Steve Fitch, 1976, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection"][/caption] Media and transportation seem forever linked. As I wrote in a previous post, the portable camera and the bicycle made a very nice pairing in their early years at the turn of the 20th century.
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Come Fly With Me
- Date: October 21, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian
- Date: September 13, 2016
- Creator: Patrick Milhoan
- Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all
Unlocking the Vault
- Date: February 28, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives manages the cold storage vault at the National Museum of American History where approximately 3 million negatives are stored.
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Link Love: 12/24/2010
- Date: December 24, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Montgomery Ward Department Store “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Book, 1939, Photo courtesy of Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History."][/caption] Where exactly did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer come from? The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History reports. Okay, so we’ve had strange items come into
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Heart of Glass
- Date: October 5, 2017
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph
Facing our Fears
- Date: October 30, 2018
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire.