Description: In 2019, the Smithsonian faced the repercussions of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, but the institution is no stranger to the dreaded furlough.
Description: In 2016 Lonnie G. Bunch donated his personal papers to the Smithsonian Institution Archives. The collection covers a wide variety of topics and spans the breath of Bunch's career from being an Education Specialist at the National Air and Space Museum to being Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Description: As a result of a generous grant, the Archives will soon catalogue and rehouse around 1,750 at-risk audiovisual media related to Smithsonian World.
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_297388,size=800,center]From all of us here at the Smithsonian Archives we wish you nothing but love and affection this Valentine's Day.Enjoy this image of Dr. Kinsey of the Kinsey Institute, an organization dedicated to changing the world's understanding of human sexuality, from the Science Service Collection, a not-for-profit founded to increase and
Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.
Description: …in which a member of the Archives staff turns her passion for sloths into a mission to research their history at the Smithsonian Institution.
Description: See how Smithsonian scientists have always been willing to do what is needed to further their research—including camping in all conditions!