Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="The first flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Orville Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 25 Folder 41, Negative Number: 2002-12169."][/caption] On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers
Description: To commemorate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary on August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is launching a web exhibit that sheds new light on English chemist James Smithson’s gift to found the Smithsonian.
Description: The National Museum of the American Indian has its origins in the collections of George Gustav. In 1989, the collection was transferred to the Smithsonian and now consists of the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Cultural Resources Center in Maryland, and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington,