Description: As Smithsonian Transcription Center volunteers unlock the stories from the Archives’ collections, we find ways to share the work of women in science hidden in the digitized pages.
Description: The man who created the Smithsonian's contemporary visual identity system, Ivan Chermayeff, died this week. Here's more on the history of the Smithsonian's identity. [via Smithsonian Magazine]If you're a high school student interested in design, you have until February 12 to enter the Cooper Hewitt's competition for design solutions to make the everyday more accessible! Also
Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.
Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.
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: The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum looks at the history of rapid change in Washington D.C., the ensuing inequality, and neighborhood activism with A Right to the City. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Check out the newly released 2018 National Design Award winners from the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt. [via Architect Magazine]There may be a developing love story at our
Description: In celebration of our friends at the National Archives’ #ElectionCollection campaign, we are sharing some unique photos of U.S. Presidents in our collection.
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
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