Results for "Paintings"
- Blog Post
The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian
- Date: June 9, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific
- Blog Post
Records and Information Management Month: The Registrar
- Date: April 23, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Did you know that April is Records and Information Management Month? What is records and information management? Glad you asked! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Dan Brown Books, by Federico Filacchione, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Information is collected data, thoughts, ideas, or memories. Records are documents that contain information
The Cockroach Kitchen
- Date: October 29, 2013
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A cockroach covered kitchen illustrated population potential in a National Museum of Natural History exhibit.
Adventures in Time and Space: Exhibition Records
- Date: October 25, 2018
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Transferring, processing, and describing exhibition drawings pose significant challenges to the archival workflow.