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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
Headshot of Meroe Park

Meroe Park

Meroe 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
men with statue
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
Photo of Steve Case wearing blue shirt

Steve Case

Steve Case Elected Chair of Smithsonian Board of Regents
10.21.2019
The Castle Administrative News
Anacostia Community Museum
Back and Better: Anacostia Community Museum Reopens With Refreshed Look Inside and Out
10.10.2019
Anacostia Community Museum Administrative News
construction site

Contractors work on installing motorized scaffolding on the Northwest corner of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, July 31, 2019.

National Air and Space Museum Renovation Update
Museum Remains Open During Construction
08.20.2019
Air and Space Museum Administrative News
painting of house

Edward Hopper, Ryder's House, 1933, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design, 1981.76

Smithsonian American Art Museum Receives Major Grant for Five-Year Collaboration With Five Partner Museums Across the American West
Grant From Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative Supports Sharing of Artworks With Audiences Throughout the United States
07.08.2019
American Art Museum Exhibitions Administrative News

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