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Public Invited To Name Black-Footed Ferret Kits at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Voting Will Be Open July 20 to July 25 July 20, 2021
Airbus IMAX Reopens at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, July 28 Featuring IMAX Documentary Classics “Blue Planet,” “The Dream Is Alive” and “To Fly!” July 16, 2021 Air and Space Museum Public Programs
Smithsonian To Receive Historic $200 Million Donation From Jeff Bezos Largest Gift Since James Smithson’s Founding of the Smithsonian July 14, 2021
New Smithsonian Film Project “Futures We Dream” To Showcase Uplifting Visions of Eight Communities Across the U.S. Award-Winning Filmmakers to Shine Light on Social Justice with Co-Chairs LL COOL J and Kevin Bright July 12, 2021
Smithsonian American Art Museum Hosts Its First Game Jam as Part of “SAAM Arcade 2021” Free Week-Long Virtual Event Celebrates Community and Individuality in Gaming July 9, 2021 American Art Museum Public Programs
National Museum of African Art To Reopen July 16 New Exhibition “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time” Now Extended to February 2022 July 9, 2021 African Art Museum Exhibitions
Smithsonian Names Ngaire Blankenberg Director of the National Museum of African Art July 6, 2021 African Art Museum Administrative News
National Air and Space Museum Exceeds Halfway Mark of $250 Million “Ignite Tomorrow” Campaign Eight New Galleries Scheduled To Open Fall 2022 July 1, 2021
National Museum of African American History and Culture and Smithsonian Folkways Announce Aug. 20 Release of the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap Featuring Track List Spanning Four Decades of Hip-Hop From Artists Lauryn Hill, Public Enemy, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj and Many More June 30, 2021
“¡Pleibol!” Slides Into Smithsonian Summer 2021 Exhibition Explores Latina/o Impact Through Baseball Artifacts, Stories and Photos June 29, 2021 American History Museum Exhibitions
Smithsonian Names Members of the National Museum of the American Latino Board of Trustees June 29, 2021 American Latino Museum Administrative News
Hokusai’s Breathtaking and Rarely Seen Wave Painting Will Go on View When the Freer Gallery of Art Reopens July 16 June 29, 2021 Asian Art Museum Exhibitions
National Air and Space Museum’s 2021 Michael Collins Trophy Awarded to Gene Kranz and the SpaceX Crew Dragon Team June 23, 2021
National Museum of the American Indian and the Government of the Republic of Peru Sign a Memorandum of Understanding To Return the “Echenique Disc” to Peru Indigenous Populations Centered Around the Sacred Valley of Cusco Support the Return June 15, 2021 American Indian Museum Exhibitions
Smithsonian “FUTURES” To Unveil Five New Commissions by Leading Contemporary Artists Visitors Can See Alternate Future Worlds as Imagined by Beatriz Cortez, Nettrice Gaskins, Soo Sunny Park, Devan Shimoyama, and Tamiko Thiel and /p in Their Smithsonian Debuts June 15, 2021 Arts and Industries Exhibitions
For Bay Oysters, Protection Plus Restoration Creates Healthiest Reefs Underwater Videos Reveal Thriving Reefs and Provide Scientists a Quick, Low-cost Method To Rate Habitats June 10, 2021 Environmental Research Center Research News
National Museum of Natural History To Reopen June 18 New Exhibitions To Debut Through the Fall June 9, 2021
Indigenous Peoples Were Stewards of the Western Amazon Study Points to a History of Indigenous Sustainable Use of the Western Amazon Stretching Back 5,000 Years June 7, 2021 Natural History Museum Research News
Warren and Barbara Winiarski To Make $4 Million Bequest to Smithsonian Funding Permanent Position for Curator of Food and Wine History Caps 25 Years of Support for National Museum of American History’s Food and Wine Programs June 7, 2021
Sascha Scott Receives the 17th Annual Frost Essay Award for Her Article About Decolonizing the Field of American Art June 3, 2021
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Reopens To the Public June 10 Admission Will Be Free Through Oct. 31 May 26, 2021
Smithsonian To Fully Reopen Museums 10 Museums in Washington, D.C., and New York City To Open Between June 10 and Aug. 27 May 26, 2021
Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center Spotlights Women Inventors in New Bilingual Display and Poster Show Exhibition Reflects the Central Tenet of the Lemelson Center: Everyone Is Inventive May 25, 2021 American History Museum Exhibitions
National Portrait Gallery Presents “Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands” Chinese-born American Artist’s First Retrospective of Portraiture To Be on View Aug. 27– May 30, 2022 May 25, 2021 Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
Smithsonian Folklife Festival Presents “Beyond the Mall: Making Matters” June 25–27 Weekend of Virtual Craft Workshops and Creative Conversations May 24, 2021 Public Programs
