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Smithsonian Museums and the National Zoo To Close March 14
03.12.2020
Administrative News
All Smithsonian Museums and National Zoo Remain Open, Events Canceled
03.12.2020
Administrative News
Statement on Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act
02.11.2020
Administrative News
Smithsonian Confirms Plans for Collaboration in East London
01.27.2020
Administrative News
Smithsonian Fiscal Year 2020 Federal Budget Totals $1 Billion
01.08.2020
Administrative News
Anacostia Community Museum’s Sunburst Lounge

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum’s Sunburst Lounge is one of the new programming space for Twilight Tuesdays activities featured weekly from 5-8 p.m. beginning Jan. 7, 2020.  Image by Michael Barnes, Smithsonian.

Anacostia Community Museum Extends Hours Beginning Jan. 7, 2020, With Twilight Tuesdays
12.30.2019
Anacostia Community Museum Administrative News
National Museum of African American History and Culture
No Passes Required and Extended Hours Dec. 26 Through Dec. 30
12.20.2019
African American Museum Administrative News
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Meroë Park

Meroë Park Named Deputy Secretary of Smithsonian Institution
12.16.2019
Administrative News
Green wax disc

Disc recording in green wax on brass holder, probably 1885. Content: male voice reciting opening lines of "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet. 

Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Receives Save America’s Treasures Grant
Funding Will Preserve Alexander Graham Bell’s Experimental Sound Recordings
12.02.2019
American History Museum Administrative News
Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Receives $1.5 Million Philanthropic Gift To Fund Cultural Sustainability Program
11.04.2019
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Administrative News
Secretary Lonnie Bunch and Chief Justice Roberts

Chief Justice John Roberts presents Secretary Lonnie Bunch with the ceremonial key to the Smithsonian Castle. 

Credit: Jaclyn Nash

Lonnie G. Bunch III Installed as 14th Smithsonian Secretary in Ceremony Held in Historic Arts and Industries Building
Chief Justice Welcomes New Secretary With Key to the Castle
11.01.2019
The Castle Administrative News
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Smithsonian and the U.S. Army Sign Historic Agreement To Train the Next Generation of Monuments Men and Women
10.22.2019
Archives of American Art Administrative News

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