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Exhibition: “Whales: From Bone to Book”
The Smithsonian Libraries will open its new exhibition “Whales: From Bone to Book” in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History on May 25. This exhibition is a...
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100 Years of Whales @ Smithsonian!
Did you know the Smithsonian created the world’s first full cast of a whale? It was a blue whale exhibited in 1904 at the St. Louis Exposition. Since the nineteenth century, the Smithsonian has been...
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Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, in partnership with the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, has opened “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,”...
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T. rex to rule Dinosaur Hall in Washington, D.C.
A close-up of the skull of the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as the Wankel T.rex which was installed in front of the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana in 2001....
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10 years roving across Mars
Tiny spherules pepper a sandy surface in this 3-centimeter (1.2-inch) square view of the Martian surface. The largest one is broken in half and shows little internal texture—typical of these...
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American Cool: Jimi Hendrix, 1967
Photo: Jimi Hendrix, 1967 / Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, gift of the photographer, Linda McCartney In the late 1960s, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) shattered the notion of what the electric...
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One Scary Chicken—New species of large, feathered dinosaur discovered
Finding a fossil is the first step, recognizing it for what it truly is, is the real challenge. While closely studying three fossil skeletons from museum collections a team of scientists from the...
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Kiyochika: Master of the Night
“Fireworks at Ike-no-Hata” by Kobayashi Kiyochika (Meiji era, 1881) On Sept. 3, 1868, the city called Edo ceased to exist. Renamed Tokyo (“Eastern Capital”) by Japan’s new rulers, the city became the...
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Chigusa and the Art of Tea
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery The power of seeing, the power of owning, the power of naming, the power of displaying, the power of writing: Japanese collectors have long engaged with objects through the...
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Celebrating Central American Ceramics (Celebrando la cerámica centroamericana)
Photo by Ernest Amoroso, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian This clay vessel depicts a Hueheuteotl (“way-way-TAY-oh-tuhl”), a Mesoamerican deity represented as an old man and...
View ArticleSmithsonian X 3D – Exhibits
How 3D technology is used at the Smithsonian to create world class exhibits! The post Smithsonian X 3D – Exhibits appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.
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“Filthy Lucre”
“Filthy Lucre,” Darren Waterston This animated GIF marks the opening of painter Darren Waterston’s immersive installation “Filthy Lucre” May 16 at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. “Filthy...
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Shaun White in “Eye Pop”
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist and ESPN. ©2006 Rick Chapman In a world consumed by personal and celebrity image making, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait...
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Fantastic Worlds
Leopoldo Galluzzo, Altre scoverte fatte nella luna dal Sigr. Herschel; 1836 This illustration is from a portfolio of hand-tinted lithographs purported to illustrate the “discovery of life on the moon.”...
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Renwick Gallery Reopens with Renewed Sense of ‘Wonder’
“In the Midnight Garden” by Jennifer Angus, 2015. Cochineal, various insects, and mixed media. (Courtesy of Jennifer Angus) An intersecting prism of light arcs overhead—made of thousands of strands of...
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Why does the National Portrait Gallery have a real portrait of a fake president?
On a chilly evening, a limousine glides up to the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. A door opens, and a presidential foot plants itself on the red carpet stretching up to the building’s...
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Seeing Magenta stamp is “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”
One-Cent Magenta stamp front. Mail clerk Edmond D. Wight’s signature appears left of center, the postmark date, “AP 4 1856” is centered with the county, “DEMERARA,” between the inner and outer circles...
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Bill Traylor: a black visionary artist’s upward trajectory in the Jim Crow South
“Untitled (Red Goat with Snake),” by Bill Traylor about 1939 – 1942. Opaque watercolor and pencil on cardboard. (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Judy A. Saslow, image courtesy of Judy A....
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Smithsonian/Victoria and Albert to create London exhibition space
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park The Smithsonian and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum plan to work together to create a major new international collaboration at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East...
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Nigerian marketplace leaps to life in African Art sound installation
Market Symphony by Emeka Ogboh Bells ring, but it’s not your grandmother calling you to dinner from the backyard. Bells ring and people shout, but it’s not in a train station. Bells ring, people shout...
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New facets of Martin Puryear’s inspiration explored in ‘Multiple Dimensions’...
Martin Puryear, “Drawing for Untitled,” 2009, about 2009, compressed charcoal on paper, Courtesy of the artist. © Martin Puryear, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery From the repetition of vaguely familiar...
View ArticleAir and Space Museum’s “Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall” Reopens July 1!
The National Air and Space Museum will reopen the “Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall” July 1 in conjunction with the museum’s 40th anniversary. The two-year renovation of the hall was made possible by...
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Inspiration is bright spark cast by American craft at Renwick Gallery
A dynamic new presentation of 80+ objects celebrating craft as a discipline and approach to living differently in the modern world has just opened at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art...
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“Tracing American Journeys” Chronicles Experiences of 17 Immigrant Entrepreneurs
The United States was in part shaped by the dreams and contributions of immigrants who sought a better life for themselves and their families. Thanks to the country’s diverse population, new and...
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Rooted in family: Mexican American winemakers
That glass of wine with dinner is more than just a complement to the food; it has a story. The history of food and drink touches on many aspects of American history and culture, including enterprise,...
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Hall of Human Origins to open at Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, March...
Image: This illustration depitcs a section of the exhibit that highlights how modern humans are the one remaining species of a diverse family tree. A new exhibition hall dedicated to the discovery and...
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New Hall of Human Origins points to environmental change as major force in...
Among the many treasures on view in the new David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is the only original fossil Neanderthal skeleton in the United...
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Elephant Trails exhibition opens at National Zoological Park
National Zoo director Dennis Kelly speaks to a crowd about Phase I of Elephant Trails today from the exhibit’s new Outpost section. Meanwhile, the Zoo’s mother and son Asian elephants, Shanthi...
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Yup’ik mask in “Infinity of Nations” exhibition at the American Indian Museum
This circa 1910 Yup’ik mask from Good News Bay, Alaska–made of driftwood, baleen, feathers, paint and cotton twine–is part of “Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National...
View Article“How Soil Savvy are You?, is featured in the exhibition “Dig It! The Secrets...
The post “How Soil Savvy are You?, is featured in the exhibition “Dig It! The Secrets of Soil,” from the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.
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Mummies featured in new Smithsonian exhibition
Egyptian mummy and coffin, 150 BC-50 A.D. Within these wrappings is the mummified body of a man who died 2,000 years ago. (Photo by Chip Clark) Canopic jar, c. 400-200 B.C. Containers like these held...
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Space shuttle Discovery to be added to National Air and Space Museum collection
Discovery, the longest-serving orbiter in the space shuttle fleet, will be accepted into the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum collection. The space shuttle has been the icon for American...
View ArticlePBS Newshour takes a look at the new National Air and Space Museum exhibition...
The post PBS Newshour takes a look at the new National Air and Space Museum exhibition “NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration” appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.
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New exhibition looks at fishes from the “Inside Out”
“X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out,” is a new exhibition of striking x-rays that reveal the complex bone structure of fishes in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History....
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Largest snake the world has ever seen is being brought back to life by...
Slithering in at 48 feet long and weighing an estimated one-and-a-half tons, the largest snake the world has ever seen is being brought back to life. Sixty million years ago, in the mysterious era...
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$35-million donation will build new dinosaur hall at National Museum of...
The National Museum of Natural History announced today that it will construct a new dinosaur exhibition hall made possible by a $35 million donation from David H. Koch, executive vice president of Koch...
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2013 exhibition to celebrate first complete human genome sequence
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of researchers producing the first complete human genome sequence — the genetic blueprint of the human body — the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will...
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Female “spidernaut” settles into new home at Smithsonian’s Insect Zoo
The new Sant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Kirk Johnson, had only been on the job for 26 days when he got an urgent message about a special mission: retrieve the world’s first...
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