Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="308" caption="On the plaza of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, February 1985, one of the two hearts of Jim Dine's bronze work "Two Big Black Hearts" is being hoisted by workmen using ropes in preparation for its installation inside the museum, 1985, by Lee Stalsworth, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Description: Dr. Valerie Fletcher joined the research staff at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1978 and was promoted to a curatorial role in 1984. Fletcher worked as an Assistant and Associate Curator, 1984–92, Curator of Sculpture, 1992–2005, and Senior Curator, 2005–16. In retirement, Fletcher continues her research at the Museum as Senior Curator Emerita. #Groundbreaker
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Nancy Sage, museum registrar, using a periscope to view a gallery in a scale model of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1973,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Ribbon cutting ceremony for the Museum Support Center Bus to transport staffers, going to and from the Museum Support Center, Silver Hill Facility (MSC), formally launched on February 6, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 98-015, Box 2, Folder: April
Description: What better time to capture family memories and stories than when you and your relatives gather to celebrate Thanksgiving? For the past several years, several organizations have encouraged families to listen to one another and record family history over the Thanksgiving weekend. StoryCorps, for example, has launched The National Day of Listening. So put down that pumpkin pie
Description: A couple of years ago, in the process of curating Now is Then, an exhibition for the Newark Museum, I spent some time researching and thinking about the content, meaning and sequential lives of snapshots. Since their introduction in the late 19th century, inestimable numbers of those small, but powerful pictures have been made, looked at and saved—at least for a while.
Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.
Description: Dr. Richard L. Zusi, associate curator in the Division of Birds, Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Museum of Natural History, examines bird skulls, August 31, 1964, by Jack Scott, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-154.
Description: Images from the Rauschenberg Foundation are now available for educational use. [via NY Times] "How to Preserve Your Family Photos, Movies, and Memories Like a Smithsonian Archivist," with our own, Ricc Ferrante. [via Fatherly]The Bob Dylan Archive which includes sketches, notes, lyrics and chord progressions for unrecorded songs, has found its home at the University of Tulsa.
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