Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.
Description: Spencer Crew, while director of National Museum of American History, at press event for opening of "Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s" exhibition, April 2001, by Jeff Tinsley, SIA Acc. 11-009, 2001-3004-37.
Description: Curator Dr. Karen Milbourne, National Museum of African Art, studies the arts of western Zambia and contemporary African art. Her exhibition "Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts" won an Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Excellence in Exhibitions award. #Groundbreaker
Description: Construction of Angelica Van Buren mannequin for First Ladies Hall exhibition at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History, November 1972, SIA Acc. 11-009, 73-1221-25A.
Description: "Multiple Hearth Roasting Furnace loaned by The Furnace Patent Co., Philadelphia PA." Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, 1915.
Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted
Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Exhibit of drawings by Japanese and American children, organized by Teiichi Kobayashi and Rebecca Henderson, wife of Edward P. Henderson, at the Transportation Museum, Tokyo, 1951, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9529, Edward P. Henderson Oral History Interviews, Negative
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="359" caption="Photographic Collage depicting the standard exhibit cases with specimens and artifacts used by the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1880s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 55, Folder 7, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="365" caption="A history exhibit in the Arts and Industries Building of the first typewriter patented in the United States, It was submitted to the United States Patent Office by William Austin Burt in 1829 and called the typographer, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
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