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: Whole new world - The Audubon Mural Project is a collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery to commission murals of climate-threatened birds surrounding the old neighborhood of John James Audubon. [via Colossal]Barriers to entry - The exhibition, Y.C. Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding
Description: In a 1991 issue of the Prophet, the Smithsonian African American Association’s newsletter, Claudine Kinard Brown called on staff to support Black museums across the country.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Administrative offices of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon Building, Panama City, This tropical laboratory, called the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), and later renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1946, photo taken December 1965, by
Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.
Description: As Summer 2021 winds down, we'll take a look at some examples of the breadth of work and collections that are represented at the Smithsonian Institution.
Description: Details of a physical inventory/survery that is ongoing at the Smithsonian. The project is focused on finding and documenting born digital items at different archival units.