Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Ten men are carrying a cayuco ("dug-out canoe") to the water in María, Coiba Island, Panama, The image was taken by Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore while on a scientific expedition to Coiba to study birds the birds of Panama, January 24, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: In Memorium: Curator & Scholar Mary Jane Lenz, National Museum of American Indian, specialized in the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic peoples, and the cross-cultural study of dolls. She vastly improved collections documentation about these collections. #Groundbreaker
Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific
Description: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Research Biologist, Dr. Nucharin Songsasen, leads the Conservation of Rare Canids program to study and conserve wild canids in zoos and in their natural habitats in South America and Southeast Asia. #Groundbreaker
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Dan Quayle, on the eve of becoming United States Vice President and Smithsonian's newest regent, addresses guests at the vice-presidential reception held the Flag Hall of the National Museum of American History, January 19, 1989, by Eric Long, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box 2
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Behind the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), the "Castle," is the site of the Smithsonian's museum complex on Independence Avenue, 1987, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 410 Box 3 Folder Quad with Street, Negative Number: 87-7964-1."][/caption]
Description: Our National Museum of African American History & Culture is getting a forever stamp October 13th! [via WUSA 9]Save the date: the Freer Sackler reopens October 14th and the are celebrating with a festival, IlluminAsia featuring projections on the building. [via DCist] Need your baby animal fix? The National Zoo has three baby critically-endangered dama gazelles, the latest
Description: Wonder Woman 1984 features fictional Smithsonian women in science trying to change the world. Let’s examine how real-life women pushed for change at the Smithsonian in the 1970s and created new opportunities for women at work.
Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Montgomery Ward Department Store “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Book, 1939, Photo courtesy of Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History."][/caption] Where exactly did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer come from? The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History reports. Okay, so we’ve had strange items come into
Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information