Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Empty display cases of what was the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) museum shop in the Arts and Industries Building, NASM was housed in the Arts and Industries Building until 1975 when it moved to its own building which opened in 1976, 1975, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The Apollo 11 Command Module just fitting through the doors of the Arts and Industries Building as it is being moved out to go to the soon to open National Air and Space Museum, August 26, 1975, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 32, Negative Number:
Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Guion S. Bluford poses with his spacesuit in the National Air and Space Museum for a Smithsonian public service announcement, May 21, 1984, by Kim Nielsen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder July 1984, Negative number:
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 historical legacy of amatuer photographer Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) is far greater than was acknowledged at the time, because of both who he photographed and how he set up the images.
Description: Looking at a recently acquired collection records created and maintained by former National Air and Space Museum director, Martin Harwit, that relate to the Enola Gay, its exhibition, and the controversy that ensued.
Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.
Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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