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Smithsonian Snapshot: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball Invitation, 1865
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate the 57th presidential inauguration, here is a peek into the evening of President Abraham Lincoln's 1865 inauguration celebration. This Smithsonian Snapshot marks...
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Smithsonian Snapshot: Greensboro Lunch Counter, 1960
This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates Black History Month with the 1960 Greensboro, N.C. Lunch Counter from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
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Smithsonian Snapshot: Victorian Parlor Collage, c. 1880
Looking to perk up your home this winter by redecorating? This Smithsonian Snapshot offers design inspiration from mid-19th century family photos, tintypes and Victorian parlor collages on view in...
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Smithsonian Scientists Launch 100-Year Project to Examine the Future of Forests
A century from now researchers will gather data from a forest in Maryland to see how, during the previous 100 years, varying levels of species diversity affected its development and how the forest...
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Smithsonian Snapshot: Odori Hitori Geiko (Dance Instruction Manual)
Similar to blogging and e-publication in the 21st century, wood-block illustrated books (ehon) in Edo-period Japan (1615-1868) evolved quickly into a popular mode of both artistic production and...
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Smithsonian Snapshot: Skylab, 1973
This Smithsonian Snapshot marks the May 14, 1973, launch of Skylab, America's first space station. Launched by NASA in 1973, Skylab orbited the Earth until 1979. The orbital workshop in this photo is...
View ArticleInvasive Species: "Away-Field Advantage" Weaker Than Ecologists Thought
For decades, ecologists have assumed the worst invasive species--such as brown tree snakes and kudzu--have an "away-field advantage." They succeed because they do better in their new territories than...
View ArticleSmithsonian Folklife Festival Program to Raise Awareness of Global Language Loss
The United Nation's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates that of the more than 7,000 languages in the world, nearly half of them are in danger of becoming extinct by the end of...
View ArticleSmithsonian Folklife Festival Showcases African American Diversity, Style and...
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival showcases its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program "The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and...
View ArticleSmithsonian Welcomes Hungary to the 2013 Folklife Festival
This summer, visitors to the 47th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival will experience the vitality and living traditions that define and sustain Hungary's unique culture. "Hungarian Heritage: Roots to...
View ArticleEndangered Languages Conference Set for Smithsonian
Over half of the world's languages are endangered. The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages is working with Native Americans to revitalize their languages before they are gone...
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Free Band Concerts and Events Are Highlights at the National Air and Space...
Planning your summer vacation? The National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., is offering special activities, all free of charge. For the first time, the museum will...
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Smithsonian Presents 47th Annual Folklife Festival
Visitors to the 47th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival can learn about the country of Hungary, endangered languages and the history of aesthetics of African Americans. The Festival will be held...
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Smithsonian Snapshot: X-Rayed Spacesuit, 2008
It was one of those happy accidents. When X-raying spacesuits at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in 2008, photographer Mark Avino and conservator Ron Cunningham noted how artistic the...
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A Meteorite Explodes on the Moon: Q&A with a Smithsonian Geophysicist
A fiery explosion on the surface of the Moon, visible to the naked eye, recently surprised NASA astronomers monitoring the moon for meteorite strikes. In this Q&A a geophysicist at the...
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Smithsonian Genome Exhibition Unlocks 21st-Century Science of Life
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, in partnership with the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, recently opened "Genome: Unlocking Life's...
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National Museum of the American Indian in New York Highlights Contemporary...
The National Museum of the American Indian, Gustav Heye Center in New York presents "Making Marks: Prints from Crow's Shadow," an exhibition now on view through Jan. 5, 2014. The exhibition showcases...
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Smithsonian Snapshot: Microwave Oven, 1976
What common appliance was invented after an experiment with radar in 1945? The microwave oven. The first models were huge--about 6 feet in height and weighing more than 750 pounds. After World War II,...
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Emmett Duffy Named Director of Smithsonian's Tennenbaum Marine Observatories...
Emmett Duffy, currently the Gluckman Professor of Marine Science at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, has been appointed director of the Smithsonian's Tennenbaum Marine Observatories...
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Sloth Bear Cub Debuts at the Smithsonian's National Zoo Hank Is the Zoo's...
The daring and adventurous sloth bear cub, Hank, made his public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo this week. He is the first sloth bear born at the Zoo in seven years.
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