Barbara and Warren Winiarski, founders of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, posing in front of a display of the 1976 Judgment of Paris winning wines in 2008. (Photo by Richard Strauss, courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History National Museum of American History)
New Artifacts On View Include Bob Ross Objects and “Crazy Rich Asians” Gown Spotlight on Women’s History Exhibitions: “Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” and “Picturing Women Inventors”
Angel Rodríguez-Díaz, ‘The Protagonist of an Endless Story,” 1993, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1996.19. Copyright 1993, Angel Rodriguez-Diaz
Animal care staff at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are welcoming a litter of endangered black-footed ferret kits today. This still from the black-footed ferret webcam shows three-year-old female Potpie with a kit born May 19 at 3:41 p.m. Photo Credit: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
Increased human–animal interactions lead to the emergence and spread of zoonotic pathogens, which cause about 75% of infectious diseases affecting human health. In this photograph, wild zebras graze alongside a pastoralist and cows in Kenya. Credit: James Hassell/Smithsonian
Credit information: (L) “Barack Obama” by Kehinde Wiley, 2018, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright 2018 Kehinde Wiley; (R) “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama” (detail) by Amy Sherald, 2018, oil on linen, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the generous donors who made these commissions possible and proudly recognizes them at npg.si.edu/obamaportraitstour. Support for the national tour has been generously provided by Bank of America.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is installed on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. Credit:KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld
A YouthAstroNet participant uses his newly acquired image analysis skills to create a composite image of an exploded star using real data from Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: Mary Dussault/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Using Robotic Telescopes and Other Engaging Astronomy Activities, Researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Hope To Spark Interest in the Sciences
This X-wing Starfighter appeared in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and is on long-term loan from Lucasfilm. It will go on display in 2022 in the museum's flagship building on the National Mall.
Chris Chong Chan Fui, “BLOCK B,” 2009. 35mm film formatted to hard drive for projection; 20:44 min. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Museum Purchase, 2010 (10.2). Still courtesy of the artist.
Online Presentation of 11 Contemporary Videos Addresses the Pandemic’s Impact on the Shared Experience of Space, Featuring Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Ragnar Kjartansson, Laure Prouvost, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Superflex
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo welcomed a male lesser kudu calf born Mar. 28 at the Chetah Conservation Station. Photo Credit: Gil Myers, Smithsonian’s National Zoo.
