Description: In the early years of the National Museum of Natural History’s Insect Zoo, staff members, volunteers and their family ventured out to local field, streams and even monuments to collect specimens.
Description: With the new year, here’s a run-down of some tips from the blog archives to help keep your digital and physical files and photos well organized.
Description: In honor of MayDay – Do One Thing for Emergency Preparedness, 2014, here is an item of interest about a new group at the Smithsonian called Preparation and Response in Collections Emergencies (PRICE) and resources on Incident Command in emergencies for cultural heritage organizations.
Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own
Description: Hey folks, we've got some big news: the Archives now has an official Facebook Page. We're pretty excited about it, and we're looking forward to using the Page to keep you posted about upcoming events, new videos, interesting links, and newly digitized collections from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, the larger Smithsonian, and beyond. This is just one of a few changes in
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