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Frederic Edwin Church, The Natural Bridge, Virginia, 1852, oil on canvas, 28 x 23 in. The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Gift of Thomas Fortune Ryan.

“Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture” Explores Renowned Naturalist’s Impact on American Identity

Smithsonian American Art Museum Is the Sole Venue for the Landmark Exhibition

02.25.2020
American Art Museum Exhibitions
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Free Images for Broader Public Use

02.25.2020
Research News Education News
Smithsonian paleontologist, Felix, Rodriguez collects coral specimens from fossil reef

Credit: Aaron O’Dea

Plenty of Gloom With a Dash of Hope: Fossils Help Identify a Lone “Bright Spot” Reef in a Similar State to Coral Reefs Before Human Impact

02.20.2020
Research News
Credit: “Orange Disaster (Linda Nochlin)” by Deborah Kass, silkscreen and acrylic on canvas,

1997. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery Presents Portrait of Feminist and Scholar Linda Nochlin by Artist Deborah Kass

02.19.2020
Portrait Gallery
Christi Belcourt (Michif), The Wisdom of the Universe, 2014, acrylic on canvas, Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Purchased with funds donated by Greg Latremoille, 2014, 2014/6. © Christi Belcourt

Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents the First Major Museum Exhibition To Explore the Achievements of Native Women Artists at Its Renwick Gallery

Nationally Touring Exhibition Opens in Washington, D.C., Feb. 21

02.19.2020
American Art Museum Exhibitions
National Museum of the American Indian in New York To Open Mili Kàpi Cafe Feb. 14

02.14.2020
American Indian Museum Heye Center
Three Cassiopea, or upside-down jellyfish, from Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean seen from above in the lab at the Department of Invertebrate Zoology in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Credit: Allen Collins and Cheryl Ames

Stinging Water Mystery Solved: Jellyfish Can Sting Swimmers, Prey With ‘Mucus Grenades’

Interdisciplinary Research Team Discovers, Describes New Free-floating Jellyfish Stinging Structures

02.13.2020
Natural History Museum Research News
"The Web of Space" sculpture by John Safer. A miniature version of this sculpture is given to the National Air and Space Museum’s Michael Collins Trophy winners every year.

National Air and Space Museum 2020 Trophy Awarded to Charles Elachi and the Hubble Space Telescope Team

Museum Names Prestigious Award for Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins

02.13.2020
Air and Space Museum
Caption: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish/Cree/Shoshone, b. 1940), “Trade Canoe: Adrift”, 2015. Acrylic on canvas. Museum purchase, 2016. (26/9791)

Women’s History Month Programs at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York

02.13.2020
American Indian Museum Heye Center Public Programs
Robert Blackburn
Girl in Red, 1950
18 ¼ x 12 ½ inches
Color Lithograph
The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art

Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Examines the Life and Work of Robert Blackburn and Printmaking in the United States

Tour Launches at Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City, Missouri, March 28

02.12.2020
Traveling Exhibition Service Exhibitions
Plains zebras are one of the large wild herbivore species threatened by increasing numbers of livestock in Laikipia County, Kenya.

Photo Credit: Ramiro D. Crego, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Growing Livestock Numbers Threaten One of the Last Refuges for Large Wild Herbivores in Kenya

Land Management and Conservancies Key to Coexistence of Wildlife and Livestock

02.12.2020
National Zoo Research News
Statement on Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act

02.11.2020
Administrative News
Photo credit: Mehgan Murphy, Smithsonian’s National Zoo

White-Cheeked Gibbon Dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo

02.11.2020
National Zoo
Inland Niger Delta artist; Djenné, Mopti Region, Mali; Equestrian Figure; 13th-15th century C.E.; Ceramic; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, museum purchase, 86-12-2; Photograph by Franko Khoury.

“Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time” Opens at the National Museum of African Art April 11

Exhibition Features Major Loans From Museums in Mali, Morocco and Nigeria and Is on View in Washington for the First Time

02.10.2020
African Art Museum Exhibitions
The research platform at the Bocas STRI station, where the microplastics were deployed.

Microplastics Are New Homes for Microbes in the Caribbean

02.07.2020
Tropical Research Institute Research News
Sam Gilliam, “Light Depth,” 1969. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Corcoran Gallery of Art. Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), 2018.

Hirshhorn Announces the First US Museum Retrospective of Pioneering Abstractionist Sam Gilliam in More Than 15 Years

Expansive Exhibition Will Trace Gilliam’s Six-Decade Career

02.07.2020
Hirshhorn Museum Exhibitions
Vai looks on at her daughter Mata, filmed in Kuki Airani, one of seven Pacific Nations featured in Vai (2019)

Photo courtesy of MPI Media

Smithsonian Film Festival Celebrates Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Fifth Annual Mother Tongue Film Festival Runs Feb. 20–23

02.06.2020
Public Programs
Author Erik Larson Discusses Churchill’s Darkest Year at Smithsonian Associates Event

02.04.2020
Smithsonian Associates Public Programs
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III Announces Additional Cities on National Book Tour

02.03.2020
Guinea pigs in their new village outside the Amazonia forest canopy at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.
Photo Credit: Roshan Patel/Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Amazonia Exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Now Includes a Guinea Pig Village

02.03.2020
National Zoo Exhibitions
February, March Public Programming Begins With Discussion on Interim Director Spencer Crew’s Latest Book “Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History”

“Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family” Exhibition Opens in Family History Center

02.03.2020
African American Museum Public Programs
Smithsonian Curators To Collect 2020 Presidential Election Memorabilia

02.03.2020
American History Museum New Acquisitions
Smithsonian Associates Presents February Program Highlights

01.31.2020
Smithsonian Associates
Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center Is Head Over Wheels

Program To Highlight Accessibility Innovations in Sports Technology During Evening Event and Donation Ceremony

01.31.2020
American History Museum Public Programs

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