Description: Halloween is over, but you can prepare for next year’s festivities with these costume ideas from the Archives of American Art. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The National Zoo’s naked mole-rat colony is still in anarchy! [via DCist]See sixty of this year’s top wildlife photographs submitted to the Windland Smith Rice Awards either online or in person at the National Museum of
Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of
Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.
Description: In September 1989 the Smithsonian sponsored a discussion between scientists and journalists about how the media can responsibly report on environmental issues.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="While the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, is still under construction, the 1401, a 280 ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive is being moved into the building, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="338" caption="Teddy Roosevelt's original "teddy" bear sitting on display at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), Date unknown, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder December 1978, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="Guests are in line at the National Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History to attend President Nixon's Inaugural Ball, January 20, 1973, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 284, Box 10, Folder 11, Negative Number:
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="308" caption="National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) foreman Richard Day with a mannequin modeled after him, now in the 'Hall of American Maritime Enterprise.' NMHT is now known as the National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, 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
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