Description: Dr. Sharon F. Patton, Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, 2003-2008, oversaw the museum’s 9,000 African art objects and welcomed the distinguished Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection. Under her leadership, the museum opened its first traveling exhibition and established a visiting artists program. #Groundbreaker
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8947,size=180,right]Record Unit 60, Meteorological Project, Records, 1849–1875 Most of these records are requests for weather data, or requests from researchers interested in the correspondence of an observer who worked on Secretary Joseph Henry’s Smithsonian Meteorological Project.Record Unit 70, Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.