Description: Aerial view of National Mall, with the old Army Medical Museum in view next to the Arts and Industries Building, July 14, 1954, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-43049G.
Description: Exterior view of the National Air Museum, Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, and the Arts and Industries Building featuring Rocket Row, as seen from Independence Avenue, 77-2273.
Description: [caption id="attachment_7461" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="Construction of the National Museum of the American Indian, July 2003, digital photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-012, Box 24, Folder NMAI Construction-July 2003, Folder CD_1, # U.jpg."] [/caption] At the Archives, we’ve recently begun working with some digital files of architectural
Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Earth, 1971, Apollo 15, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies"][/caption] The planets and outer space used to seem far, far away from our lives down on earth. But as this slideshow reveals, by the mid-twentieth century—with Ford Galaxies in our driveways, satellite-shaped barbeque
Description: Who knew beetle feet could be so beautiful? [via Colossal]The Cooper Hewitt's immersive wallpaper room was featured at the London Biennale! [via Cooper Hewitt Labs]Obselete art pigments...and their strange sources. [via Hyperallergic]NASA-funded research is open to the public! [via Futurism]Newberry Library acquires the world's largest postcard collection, 2.5 million of them.