Results for "Space race"
- Document
Torch 05/1967
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1967 Box 1 Folder 5
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening
- Date: September 15, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000479, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Department of Space History, Exhibition Records, circa 1976-1990
- Date: 1976 1976-1990 circa 1976-1990
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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American Negro Artists (National Gallery of Art, 1929-1930)
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: On May 16, 1929, an exhibition of American Negro Artists opened on the ground floor of the Smithsonian’s US National Museum building. The exhibition featured fifty-one works by twenty-seven black sculptors and painters who won a juried competition sponsored by the Harmon Foundation.1Though the work selected remained distant from the most radical new work being created by
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SIA Acc. 08-070, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, Heritage Month Program Audiovisual Records, 1998-2006
- Date: 1998 1998-2006
- Creator: Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley
- Date: December 15, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.
Fifty Years and Many More to Come!
- Date: September 12, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 07-137, DeVorkin, David H. 1944-, David H. DeVorkin Papers, circa 1979-2002
- Date: 1979 1979-2002 circa 1979-2002
- Creator: DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009578, Louis R. Purnell Oral History Interviews, 1993-1994
- Date: 1993 1993-1994
- Creator: Purnell, Louis R., interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000339, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Office of Special Events, Events Files, circa 1971-1989
- Date: 1971 1971-1989 circa 1971-1989
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Office of Special Events
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Malcolm Watkins
- Date: August 19, 2016
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8629,size=350,left]C. Malcolm Watkins was an unlikely revolutionary; nevertheless, he would lead a vanguard of curators who brought African American history into the Smithsonian in the 1960s and 1970s. C. Malcolm Watkins, Smithsonian curator and cultural historian, brought African American history into the Smithsonian in the 1960s and 1970s. Attentive
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Lonnie Bunch
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: Historian Lonnie Bunch is the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian’s 19th museum. Growing up with a love of history and a sense that African Americans deserved “a voice,” his education and early career gave him the research, museum, and management experience that allowed him to successfully develop an idea into a