Results for "Museums -- History"
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Museums
- Date: March 9, 2011
- Description: Information on the history of the Smithsonian's museums representing art, history, and culture.
- SI History Bibliography
Museum-History and Museums of History
- Date: 1889
- Creator: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896
- Creator: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896
- SI History Bibliography
Curiosities and Cabinets: Natural History Museums and Education on the Antebellum Campus
- Date: 1988
- Creator: Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
- Creator: Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
- Historic Pictures
National Museum of American History
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The National Museum of American History, known as the National Museum of History and Technology until 1980, was established in 1957 to house the growing US National Museum’s collections on the social, cultural, scientific, and technological history of the United States. The new museum opened in January of 1964.History of the National Museum of American HistoryAdditional
- SI History Bibliography
George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums: A National Museum of Cultural History
- Date: 1983
- Creator: Alexander, Edward P
- Creator: Alexander, Edward P
- SI History Bibliography
Interpretive Dioramas as Material Culture of Natural History Museums: A Case Study at the National Museum of Natural History
- Date: 2000
- Creator: Rossilli, Ann B
- Creator: Rossilli, Ann B
- Gallery
National Museum of American History
- Date: September 16, 2013
- Description: The National Museum of American History first opened to the public in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology. In 1980, a bill signed by President Jimmy Carter changed the museum’s name to the National Museum of American History. The postcards in this gallery show objects on display at the museum, as well as views of the building. Some objects that are now in the National
Design + Archives = National Museum of History and Technology
- Date: May 29, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A peek at an architectural model of the National Museum of American History from the Archives collections.
- Historic Pictures
National Museum of Natural History
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: Natural history specimens and ethnographic artifacts were among the earliest collections of the US National Museum. In 1910, the National Museum of Natural History building opened to showcase these collections. Wings were added in the 1960s, and a collections storage facility in Maryland opened in 1983 to help house the National Museum of Natural History’s 126 million objects.
- SI History Bibliography
Life on Display: Revolutionizing US Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century
- Date: 2014
- Creator: Rader, Karen A (Karen Ann) 1967-,Cain, Victoria E. M. 1974-
- Creator: Rader, Karen A (Karen Ann) 1967-,Cain, Victoria E. M. 1974-
- SI History Bibliography
A Memorial of George Brown Goode, together with a selection of his papers on museums and on the history of science in America
- Date: 1901
- Creator: Wilson, William Lyne 1843-1900,Geare, Randolph I,Hubbard, Gardiner G (Gardiner Greene) 1822-1897,Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906,Osborn, Henry Fairfield,Dall, William Healey 1845-1927
- Creator: Wilson, William Lyne 1843-1900,Geare, Randolph I,Hubbard, Gardiner G (Gardiner Greene) 1822-1897,Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906,Osborn, Henry Fairfield,Dall, William Healey 1845-1927
- SI History Bibliography
A Memorial of George Brown Goode, Together with a Selection of his Papers on Museums and on the History of Science in America
- Date: 1901
- Creator: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896
- Creator: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896