Results for "Smithsonian American Art Museum"
Link Love: 10/14/2011
- Date: October 14, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening
- Date: September 15, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.
- Blog Post
Snapshots of Transition: Native American Reservation Life in the Early 1900s
- Date: November 17, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="In this photo Reverend James O. Arthur poses on a sand dune at White Sands, New Mexico. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Catalog number: N53381."][/caption] This is the first entry in a series celebrating National Native American Heritage Month. In this series we will be highlighting photos from the
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-006, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Website Records, 2017
- Date: 2017
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-072, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Website Records, 2016
- Date: 2016
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
What’s in a Name? The Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: June 16, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: On June 16, 2006, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum changed its name for the third time, signaling a renewed focus on local Black history and beyond.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 10-191, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Website Records, 2010
- Date: 2010
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- SI History Chronology
Architectural History of the American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, 1836
- Date: 1836-1868 Civil War, 1861-1865
- Blog Post
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi
- Date: June 6, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi, Supervisory Curator of Collections, Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, oversaw the acquisition of nearly 37,000 collection objects for the new museum. #Groundbreaker
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WWII: The Smithsonian on the Home Front
- Date: June 27, 2016
- Description: As World War II raged throughout the world, many feared the threat of another attack on American soil. Washington, D.C., and the National Mall were obvious targets for the Axis countries which put the Smithsonian buildings and collections located there in danger. In order to protect the Smithsonian’s collections, staff took action and moved many materials off of the National
- SI History Bibliography
Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art
- Date: 1990
- Creator: Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe
- Creator: Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe
- Document
May 1 Archives of American Art Formally Joins SI | Smithsonian Institution Archives