Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Graduating class from The Calverton School, Huntingtown, Maryland, by unidentified photographer, 1977, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Archives Center"][/caption] "It’s kind of a bummer when you look so beautiful and somebody has the same exact one as you," says a high school senior quoted in a recent
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Earth, 1971, Apollo 15, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies"][/caption] The planets and outer space used to seem far, far away from our lives down on earth. But as this slideshow reveals, by the mid-twentieth century—with Ford Galaxies in our driveways, satellite-shaped barbeque
Description: 2022 will mark the Smithsonian's 175th Anniversary. In honor of that, we're taking a look at what some of the design work went into making the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary celebration happen.
Description: Artist Mathew Mohr has created a 14-foot interactive sculpture that creates projections of visitor's faces! [via Colossal]The Library of Congress has added 64 films for free streaming to their National Film Registry. [via Info Docket]Conservators are using light in the form of Reflectance Transformation Imaging to find Isaac Newton's doodles on the walls of childhood home.
Description: Nixon Presidential Library and Museum releases 66,000 more documents from his White House days. [via InfoDocket]The Smithsonian's first blog, Eye Level, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum just celebrated its 10th year! [via Eye Level]Not many people know why the Smithsonian was founded, and the extraordinary set of circumstances that had to take place for it to happen.
Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Center's Dr. Rachel Collin, Evolutionary Biologist and Director of their Bocas Del Toro Research Station, studies the evolution of marine gastropods (snails) and oversees multiple disciplines of marine biology at the Collin Lab in Bocas del Toro. #Groundbreaker