Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Opening night visitors view a parade of recent fashions in the "Suiting Everyone" exhibit at the National Museum of History and Technology, now the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 1974, by Alfred Harrell, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives manages the cold storage vault at the National Museum of American History where approximately 3 million negatives are stored.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Dr. Judith A. Blake, biological technician at the Smithsonian's new Molecular Systematics Laboratory operated by the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, MD, stores tissue samples from plants and animals at temperatures of -148 degrees Fahrenheit, 1990, by Harold E.
Description: As the Lichtenstein Foundation closes, half a million documents are coming to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art! [via NY Times]Bitcoin is entering the art market. [via Mutual Art]Hyperspectral scanning reveals Picasso's process during his "blue period." [via The Star]What could possibly connect Abraham Lincoln to vampires? The Smithsonian's National Museum of American
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="295" caption="The Children's Room in the South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, was created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley (1887-1906) as a natural history display area especially for children, c. 1901, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder
Description: Research botanist Dr. Ashley Egan, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, works with the museum's 86,000 legume specimens to understand the processes and patterns that have formed biodiversity throughout the course of evolution. #Groundbreaker
Description: The creation and design of the Smithsonian Institution Building, commonly known as the “Castle”, is no mystery; however, the stories of some of the early individuals involved in the formation of the Smithsonian’s collection are less commonly known. We need to ask who collected the specimens and produced research on the objects that visitors now see when they enter Smithsonian