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Elderly Sloth Bear Dies at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

11.04.2009
National Zoo & SCBI
National Museum of African Art Presents “Yinka Shonibare MBE”

A Mid-Career Retrospective of This Acclaimed Artist

11.03.2009
African Art Museum
Smithsonian Fiscal Year 2010 Federal Appropriation Totals $761.4 Million

11.02.2009
Administrative News
“Portraiture Now: Communities” Opens at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Nov. 6

11.02.2009
Portrait Gallery
Oryx Die at National Zoo

10.30.2009
National Zoo & SCBI
Smithsonian Celebrates 40 Years of “Sesame Street”

Family-friendly Event Features Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Zoe and Prairie Dawn

10.28.2009
Smithsonian Associates Public Programs
National Postal Museum Presents British Stamps in a New Online Collection

10.28.2009
Postal Museum
National Postal Museum Depicts Rural Postal Delivery in New Online Collection

10.28.2009
Postal Museum
National Museum of African Art Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence

10.28.2009
African Art Museum
National Air and Space Museum Holds First Virtual Conference Nov. 10

10.28.2009
Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Latino Center Presents “Dia de los Muertos Festival”—a 3-D Experience in the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum

10.26.2009
American Latino Museum Public Programs
Plains Indian Artists Tell 19th-Century Stories through Ledger Drawings in New National Museum of American History Exhibition

10.26.2009
American History Museum
Trek Lime Bike Wins the 2009 People’s Design Award

10.23.2009
Cooper Hewitt
The National Portrait Gallery Announces “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009” Awards

10.22.2009
Portrait Gallery
National Museum of the American Indian Celebrates American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month

10.22.2009
American Indian Museum
Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center Releases New Book on Inventor Grace Hopper

The life of World War II computer scientist is explored.

10.22.2009
American History Museum
National Postal Museum Presents the Arago Featured Collection “The Art of Christmas Stamps”

10.21.2009
Postal Museum
Scientists Discover Largest Orb-Weaving Spider

10.21.2009
Natural History Museum
Catching a Killer One Spore at a Time

10.19.2009
Tropical Research Institute
The Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery Extends World Tour of “Garden and Cosmos” to Australia

10.19.2009
“Falnama: The Book of Omens” at the Sackler Gallery Offers First Exhibition of Rare Manuscripts

10.19.2009
National Museum of African American History and Culture Premieres Film about Black Soldiers in England during WWII Nov. 10

10.16.2009
African American Museum
“The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present” Opens at the Anacostia Community Museum Nov. 8

10.16.2009
Anacostia Community Museum
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gives Major Gift to National Museum of African American History and Culture

10.15.2009
African American Museum
Smithsonian Scientists Say Roads Are the Number-One Threat to World’s Tropical Rainforests

10.14.2009
Tropical Research Institute Research News
The First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home of the Titanoboa

10.13.2009
Tropical Research Institute
“Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort” Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian Oct. 16

10.09.2009
American Indian Museum
National Museum of the American Indian Announces NMAI Prism Award Winners

10.06.2009
American Indian Museum

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