Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Churchill High School Pep Rally, 1978, Geoff Winningham, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1667."][/caption] Years ago, when the National Endowment for the Arts had a Visual Arts Program to give out individual artist grants, a week
Description: The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum looks at the history of rapid change in Washington D.C., the ensuing inequality, and neighborhood activism with A Right to the City. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Check out the newly released 2018 National Design Award winners from the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt. [via Architect Magazine]There may be a developing love story at our
Description: Group portrait of zookeepers in front of a crated bison on a horse-drawn wagon on road in front of the hospital building at the National Zoological Park, NZP-0532.
Description: Taxidermist Sybil Costanzo worked at the National Museum of Natural History for 8 years and was the only female federal employee to do taxidermy work. #Groundbreaker
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="439" caption="Bird storage on the third floor of the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24055."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="415" caption="Ice skaters on Rock Creek on the grounds of the National Zoological Park at the turn of the century, 1905, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 35 Folder 21, Negative Number: MAH-15911."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="341" caption="Storage cases in the Paleontology Laboratory in the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24046."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Helen Stephens is checking jewelry at National Museum of History and Technology Museum Shop, 1975, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Negative Number: 75-9071-8."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="attachment_13490" align="aligncenter" width="428" caption="Installation of the Jose de Rivera sculpture, "Infinity," in front of the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1967, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic negative, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative number: OPA-1020.16"][/caption]
Description: Astronaut and earth scientist, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, was the 1st female American astronaut to spacewalk, and was named the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in 2017. #Groundbreaker
Description: During planning of the future National Museum of American History, Webb and Knapp attempted to move it off the Mall into Southwest Washington.
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