Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.
Description: How is the Smithsonian, with its museums full of specimens and research labs full of scientists, portrayed in movies, novels, television, and videogames? Smithsonian staff and the iconic buildings they work in have been portrayed in mysteries, romances, dramas, comedies, and science fiction. Often, the ways that museum curators, explorers, and lab researchers and what they do
Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?