Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Cruriraja cadenati, 6 Oct 1959, Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, USNM 196443. "][/caption] The Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, just launched nearly 2 million records on the Smithsonian Collections Search Center related to their vertebrate
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: Research Anthropologist Dr. Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, uses bones to study the effects of environmental contaminants on people in the past and present, and directs the Smithsonian Institution Bio-Imaging Research Center. #Groundbreaker
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Description: To commemorate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary on August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is launching a web exhibit that sheds new light on English chemist James Smithson’s gift to found the Smithsonian.
Description: While closed for renovations, here is a look at some historic images of the Renwick Gallery on the anniversary of its opening to the public.