Results for "Smithsonian American Art Museum"
- Webpage
Historic Pictures of the Smithsonian
- Date: October 3, 2017
- Description: Follow the Smithsonian's growth through photographs from its founding to the world's largest museum complex today.
Museum Computer Network and the Smithsonian Institution: Support and Encouragement
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Museum Computer Network, this second blog explores the early interactions of MCN with the Smithsonian.
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian’s First Garden
- Date: May 31, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- 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,
- SI History Chronology
National Museum of American Art (NMAA) renamed Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), October 27, 2000
- Date: October 27, 2000
- Historic Pictures
National Postal Museum
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The National Postal Museum was established in 1990 under an agreement between the Smithsonian and US Postal Service to preserve and display the National Philatelic Collection, formerly part of the National Museum of American History. The Postal Museum moved to the Washington City Post Office Building on Capitol Hill in 1993. History of the National Postal MuseumAdditional
- SI History Bibliography
Souvenir Nation: Relics, Keepsakes and Curios from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
- Date: 2013
- Creator: Bird, William L., Jr
- Creator: Bird, William L., Jr
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Adelyn Breeskin
- Date: June 1, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator Adelyn Breeskin, National Museum of American Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), was one of the 1st women to direct a major art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art) and was a champion of obscure artists in the contemporary art world. #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 6/22/2018
- Date: June 22, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The American Foundation for the Blind launched the Helen Keller Archive, the world's first fully accessible digital archive comprised of more than 160,000 artifacts. [via PR Newswire]Ahead of his major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Trevor Paglen shares his views on the social and political implication of surveillance systems and artificial
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Nora Atkinson
- Date: August 8, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Curator of Craft Nora Atkinson, Smithsonian American Art Museum, researches the role of the handmade in modern culture and was responsible for bringing the large scale art of Burning Man to the nation's capital for the first time. #Groundbreaker
- Blog Post
Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response
- Date: March 16, 2021
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Link Love: 12/4/2015
- Date: December 4, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Nixon Presidential Library and Museum releases 66,000 more documents from his White House days. [via InfoDocket]The Smithsonian's first blog, Eye Level, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum just celebrated its 10th year! [via Eye Level]Not many people know why the Smithsonian was founded, and the extraordinary set of circumstances that had to take place for it to happen.
- SI History Bibliography
The Background of the Smithsonian's Museum of Engineering and Industries
- Date: 1946
- Creator: Taylor, Frank A (Frank Augustus) 1903-2007
- Creator: Taylor, Frank A (Frank Augustus) 1903-2007