The public is invited to help name two cotton-top tamarin sisters at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Image: Chelia Chong, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Abiding Nowhere still in the National Museum of Asian Art’s courtyard; photo by Claude Wang.
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford by George Hurrell, gelatin silver print, 1936. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired in part through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
Still from Frybread Face and Me. Photo courtesy of AARAY Releasing.
White-naped crane Walnut and her keeper, Chris Crowe, in 2021. Credit: Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation Gallery Rendering. Smithsonian Institution.
"Sewing a fine seam—finishing touches are applied to one section of the new spacesuit for NASA's Apollo lunar missions on this long-arm sewing machine, built specially for manufacturing the spacesuits." Hazel Fellows, seated, machine-sewing pieces of an Apollo A7L spacesuit on the production line at International Latex Corporation (ILC), Federica (Dover), Delaware; released Aug. 9, 1968. Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Judith Schaechter, “The Life Ecstatic” Stained Glass Lightbox, 31 x 29 x 4 inches / 79 x 74 x 10 cm Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery.
Possible Epicenters of Moonquake. NASA/LRO/LROC/Smithsonian Institution
Perspective view of Lucus Planum part of the Medusae Fossae Formation, a series of thick deposits found along the highland-lowland dichotomy boundary on Mars. The deposit shown here in this false color, Context Camera (CTX) mosaic, is several kilometers thick.
Credit: Caltech/JPL Global CTX Mosaic of Mars/Smithsonian Institution.
“But I’m Still Fly” by Fahamu Pecou. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, copyright Fahamu Pecou.
A crowd watching a lion dancer perform outside the museum during the 2023 Lunar New Year Festival. Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Hylomys peguensis photographed in Wang Nam Khiao District, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
Credit: Charoenchai Tothaisong, CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED.
Pinback button memorial depicting Martin Luther King Jr. ca. 1968. Credit: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Peggy Boyd Petrey.
The reconstructed woolly dog shown at scale with Arctic dogs and spitz breeds in the background to compare scale and appearance; the portrayal does not imply a genetic relationship. Credit: Karen Carr.
Credit: Oprah Winfrey by Shawn Michael Warren, oil on linen, 2023. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Acquired through the generosity of Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia; Taylor and Wemimo Abbey; Anonymous; Deon Jones and Cameron J. Ross; Lisa Opoku and Loki Muthu; Mack Wilbourn; Charles Young and Andrea Wishom Young.
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