Results for "Science"
- Blog Post
Do you remember . . . ?
- Date: August 26, 2010
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Trees of Christmas
- Date: December 19, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: On December 19, 1977 the Trees of Christmas exhibition opened at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). This was the first exhibition of the Office of Horticulture (now Smithsonian Gardens) and featured trees with handcrafted ornaments representing a variety of countries and cultural traditions.
Design + Archives: One Smithsonian
- Date: February 1, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A discussion of the 1998 Smithsonian Visual Identity Program in the context of the Smithsonian's 2017 strategic plan.
| ˚-˚ | Listen In - Transporting You Back to 1994 | ˚-˚ |
- Date: November 19, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity, was one of the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. The exhibition was a collaboration of fifteen Native American painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and dancers. The exhibition featured sculpture, performance, poetry,
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.
Oh Beautiful - The Grand Canyon
- Date: January 8, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Slideshow of historic images of the Grand Canyon from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.
Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation
- Date: November 20, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice
- Date: May 14, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."
Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar
- Date: March 5, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.
Freer Gallery of Art - Moments in History
- Date: November 9, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In honor of the reopening on the Freer Gallery of Art, here's a look at some records that illustrate moments from their history.
Design + Archives: Posters
- Date: October 6, 2016
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A selection of posters from programs and exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts and National Museum of American Art) and Renwick Gallery.
Bunch of Boxes
- Date: February 3, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In 2016 Lonnie G. Bunch donated his personal papers to the Smithsonian Institution Archives. The collection covers a wide variety of topics and spans the breath of Bunch's career from being an Education Specialist at the National Air and Space Museum to being Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.