Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="Secretary Charles D. Walcott, Date unknown, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 23 Folder 19, Negative Number:2002-12185."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Photograph, taken on a spring day, of one of the new Smithsonian owlets who fell out of a tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, the "Castle," Richard L. Ault recaptured the bird and brought him back into the Castle, c. 1977, by Paul J. Edelson, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: On New Years Day 2015, the 44,000 works of art in the Smithsonian’s Freer | Sackler collection will be available online. [via WAMU] Dumpster diving! The National Museum of American History added a copy of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 game found in a landfill to their collection. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]The grand re-opening of
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Mounted Cyanotypes, the Working Proofs for Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, Plate 55, "Walking, Turning Around, Action of Aversion" (Miss Larrigan, July 28, 1885), by Eadweard Muybridge, Cyanotype, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications,
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="382" caption="Samuel P. Langley, 1834-1906, third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906), observing birds in flight from the roof of the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1901-02, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and