Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Science Service, Up Close: Save the Redwoods
- Date: May 21, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Science Service: Up Close - Pictures from the Bolling Memorial Redwood Grove, Humboldt County, California.
Link Love: 2/15/2019
- Date: February 15, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Forging a Legal Path: Marie Malaro
- Date: September 18, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Marie Malaro, 1933-2018, entered law in 1957 when few women were admitted to the bar, and then taught generations of museum professionals how law and ethics applied to their work every day.
| ˚-˚ | 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,
Science Service, Up Close: Laughing All the Way
- Date: April 1, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Humor and its manifestation at Science Service.
Going Wild with Golden Lion Tamarins
- Date: July 25, 2019
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: In 1984, the National Zoo began reintroducing golden lion tamarins to the wild resulting in a conservation success.
New Year, Same Field
- Date: January 31, 2019
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Explore the different ways that scientists celebrated New Year’s during field trips abroad.
And They Called it Puppy Love
- Date: August 25, 2020
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Pupper, doggy, hound, bowwow, beastie, pooch. No matter what we call dogs, they have always been our best friends. In honor of writing the third National Dog Day post, let’s take a look at the pooches from the Archives' staff (both past and present). Some of these doggos are home helping Archives' staff while we continue working remotely. Can we get an all around "Goooooood
Bringing out the Animal in Art
- Date: December 22, 2015
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: On National Visit the Zoo Day, a look at a unique exhibition at the National Zoological Park, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: “Animal In Art,” an exhibit and series of “sketch-ins,” part of an international campaign for the World Wildlife Fund.
You Spin Me Round - Frisbee Festivals on the Mall
- Date: May 23, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the Washington Area Frisbee Club, held their first Frisbee Festival on the National Mall.
It Suits Me
- Date: September 24, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Changes in the way Americans dress over 30 years of group photos.
The Hirshhorn Adventures: A Museum for the Mall
- Date: December 11, 2018
- Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has been located on the National Mall since 1974, but before that, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn spent years considering which city or country the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden would call home.