Results for "Natural history museum directors"
Sneak Peek 8/5/2013
- Date: August 5, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: West Attic of the National Museum of Natural History.
Sneak Peek 5/8/2013
- Date: May 8, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Construction of the foundation for the National Museum of Natural History.
Smithsonian Names Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty Director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- Date: October 6, 2021
- Description: On October 5, 2021, the Smithsonian announced that Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty will be the new director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, effective Nov. 6.
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Combining Interests: You never know what you might find at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Date: January 31, 2012
- Description: A Smithsonian Institution Archives volunteer discusses a Triceratops video collection that also relates to his work at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
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Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’
- Date: April 4, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Susan Kaplan
- Date: July 26, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Arctic anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. Susan A. Kaplan (left), formerly of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History , directs the Peary McMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center, and studies Inuit responses to environmental change and Arctic exploration. #Groundbreaker
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See Here: 2/7/2011
- Date: February 7, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="305" caption="Award-winning artist-in-residence at the National Museum of Natural History, Don Tenoso (Hunkpapa), with three of his Lakota dolls, is crouching in a niche outside the National Museum of Natural History above a sign that reads "Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of Man," 1991,
Sneak Peek 9/10/2018
- Date: September 10, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Lynn Volpi demonstrates "By-Word" wand sound system in a mineralogy exhibit at National Museum of Natural History, November 26, 1975, by Harry Neufeld, SIA RU000371, 75-16336-11.
Recent Acquisition - Records from Martin Harwit, Director, NASM, 1986-1995
- Date: April 24, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Looking at a recently acquired collection records created and maintained by former National Air and Space Museum director, Martin Harwit, that relate to the Enola Gay, its exhibition, and the controversy that ensued.
A Glimpse of 1920s China from the Remington Kellogg Papers
- Date: February 19, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.
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Link Love: 9/10/2010
- Date: September 10, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="168" caption="Canna indica L., identified by P.J.M. Maas & H. Maas, Cusco, Peru, National Museum of Natural History, Botany Department, Catalog Number: 1998001."][/caption] The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Botany Department just added over 1,300 images to the Smithsonian Collection Search Center! Some gorgeous
Sneak Peek 11/7/2012
- Date: November 7, 2012
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Fishes in specimen jars at the National Museum of Natural History.