Description: For Preservation Week, our team answered our burning, often ignorant questions about their biggest challenges, what they consider when treating objects, and beyond.
Description: Janet Douglas, Head of Technical Studies at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, studies works of art and archaeology especially inorganic materials such as stone, jade, and metal. #Groundbreaker
Description: This piece is part two in a series of posts about Smithsonian Institution Archives’ (SIA) paper conservator and interns working on stabilizing a 1921 panoramic photo of air mail pilots and crews that is being moved to the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Also see part 1 and a related post on NASM's blog. [caption id="attachment_7587"
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Launching of Malcolm Forbes hot-air balloon on March 31, 1983 on the National Mall. Forbes offered his balloon, a replica of the Forbes chateau in France, for ceremonies dedicating the Postal Service's stamp commemorating 200 years of hot-air ballooning, by Richard K.
Description: Frances Glessner Lee crafted the “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” detailing miniature crime scenes (now on exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery)—to train homicide investigators revolutionizing the emerging field of homicide investigation. #Groundbreaker
Description: There's a new sea slug on the block, the leaf sheep, aka Shaun the Sheep. If you can't get enough sea slugs, we have several illustrations of these fantastical creatures! [via My Modern Met]Our Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery will display 6 outdoor, large-scale artworks from Burning Man, including a five-ton cast cement bust, “Maya’s Mind” paying homage to
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="331" caption="14th Street and Broadway, NYC (man with goggles), 1947, by Louis Faurer, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of anonymous donors, 2007.40.61 "][/caption] Earlier this month, Google introduced the Beta and Android-based version of the new and, for some, startling photo-based search feature they’ve calling Google Goggles.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="402" caption="Listening to the tape recorded description of the Falcon Guided Missile presented to the National Air Museum, now the National Air and Space Museum, by the Hughes Aircraft Company. L to R: Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who made the presentation; Brig. General Emmett F. Yost, Commander, 85th Air Division, Air Defense
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="430" caption="Opening of the New National Air and Space Museum. President Gerald Ford, Michael Collins, Director of the National Air and Space Museum and former astronaut, with Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, touring the "Apollo to the Moon Gallery" on opening day of the new building, July 1, 1976, by
Description: Watch how we make invisible Beatles’ autographs visible with Reflectance Transform Imaging, a technique for forensic document examination.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="An early model of the grounds and buildings at the National Zoological Park site at Rock Creek Park, Date unknown, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 11, Negative Number: 10193."][/caption]
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