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
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="While the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, is still under construction, the 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive is being moved into the building, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="338" caption="Teddy Roosevelt's original "teddy" bear sitting on display at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), Date unknown, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder December 1978, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="Guests are in line at the National Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History to attend President Nixon's Inaugural Ball, January 20, 1973, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 284, Box 10, Folder 11, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="308" caption="National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) foreman Richard Day with a mannequin modeled after him, now in the 'Hall of American Maritime Enterprise.' NMHT is now known as the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Aerial photo from the Washington Monument showing the newly completed Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, the construction of the West Wing of the Natural History Building, The National Mall, Constitution Avenue, the Capitol in the distance, and the Smithsonian Institution
Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Description: SPOILER ALERT! The Getty Museum is summarizing Game of Thrones episodes each Monday on Tumblr. (via Mental Floss)The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has openly released their patent and trademark datasets to developers. (via Info Docket)Daunting - "Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years." (via Atlantic)The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery now has a
Description: Lonnie G. Bunch III was installed as the Fourteenth Secretary of the Smithsonian on November 1, 2019 in the historic Arts and Industries Building. To celebrate this new day in Smithsonian history, let’s take a look back at installations past!