Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A crowd of visitors looking at the lunar sample on exhibit in the Rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building soon after it came to the National Air and Space Museum, 1970, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 398, Box 56, Folder 18, Negative Number:
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.
Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Men preparing the Wright 1909 Military Plane to be moved out of the North Hall of the Arts and Industries Building, August 1975, The Lunar Module can be seen on the left, by Richard Farrar, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 32, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="The Center Market, on B Street, now Constitution Avenue, north of the new United States National Museum Building, now the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1909, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 16, Negative Number: 21933."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Installation of the Comparative Anatomy Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, Workers can be seen using a pulley system to raise the skeleton of a whale to the ceiling, c. 1881, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
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