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National Portrait Gallery Announces 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Finalists

05.07.2019
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
Hirshhorn To Host Participatory “Truth Booth” Inviting Visitors To Contribute to Public Quest for Truth

Installation by CAUSE COLLECTIVE Artists Ryan Alexiev, Jim Ricks and Hank Willis Thomas Makes Its Washington Debut on the National Mall June 8–23

05.03.2019
Hirshhorn Museum
Smithsonian Hosts National Youth Summit on “Woman Suffrage: The Ballot and Beyond”

Museum Connects Students Across the Country for Discussions on Woman-led Activism

05.02.2019
American History Museum Education News
Smithsonian Learning Lab Named Best Education Website in the 23rd Annual Webby Awards

Smithsonian’s Learning Lab Tops the List For International Awards Honoring the Best of the Internet

05.02.2019
Center for Learning and Digital Access Education News
Early Summer Programming Launches With Wu-Tang Clan Docu-series Screening and Discussion With Director Sacha Jenkins and Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, Power and Divine

05.01.2019
African American Museum Public Programs
Annual Children’s Festival Focuses on Taíno Culture of the Caribbean

Visitors to the Smithsonian Museum Can Learn About Indigenous Foods, Petroglyphs and Traditional Stories

05.01.2019
American Indian Museum Heye Center Public Programs
Smithsonian Associates Presents May Program Highlights

05.01.2019
Smithsonian Associates Public Programs
Credit: Lucy Stone by an unidentified photographer, half-plate daguerreotype, c. 1855. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery Presents “Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits”

05.01.2019
Portrait Gallery Exhibitions
Smithsonian Marks 150th Anniversary of Transcontinental Railroad

Displays, Exhibits and Online Resources Begin May 10

04.30.2019
American History Museum Exhibitions
National Museum of American History Embarks on Project for Preservation of Revolutionary War-Era Gunboat Philadelphia

04.30.2019
"Journey through an Exploded Star" 3D Interactive Experience

Smithsonian Launches “Journey through an Exploded Star” 3-D Interactive Experience

Visualizations Let Users Step Inside Astronomical Phenomena To Understand Human Connections to the Cosmos

04.30.2019
Astrophysical Observatory Center for Learning and Digital Access Education News
Wasp in Pupil Stage. Credit: Marcelo O. Gonzaga

Parasitoid Wasps May Turn Spiders Into Zombies by Hacking Their Internal Code

04.29.2019
Tropical Research Institute Research News
A newly hatched Guam kingfisher chick at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. The chick hatched April 22. Guam kingfishers are extinct in the wild and only about 140 of them live in human care.

Credit: Erica Royer/Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Extinct-in-the-Wild Guam Kingfisher Hatches at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

This Brightly Colored Bird Is One of the Most Endangered Bird Species on the Planet

04.26.2019
Conservation Biology Institute Research News
Artistic reconstruction of Callichimaera perplexa: The strangest crab that has ever lived.

Image credit: Elissa Martin, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Fossil Crab Reveals a New Branch in the Tree of Life

04.24.2019
Tropical Research Institute Research News
A wood turtle in a stream in Virginia.

Photo: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

Smithsonian Scientists Use eDNA for the First Time To Find Wood Turtles in Virginia

The High-Tech Sampling Is as Effective as Traditional Scientific Surveys

04.24.2019
Conservation Biology Institute Research News
Crystal, a female gray wolf at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, plays with a pillow for enrichment, exercising her natural hunting abilities.

Photo Credit: Chelsea Grubb, Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Elderly Gray Wolf Dies at Smithsonian’s National Zoo

04.23.2019
National Zoo
Smithsonian and Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives Celebrate Marvin Gaye Forever Stamp

April 20 Events at Two Historic D.C. Locations

04.19.2019
Anacostia Community Museum Postal Museum Public Programs
Tight shot of the lunar spacesuit worn by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 mission showing the reflection in the face shield, taken by photographer Jim Preston. Credit: National Air and Space Museum

Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 Spacesuit To Go On Display July 16 at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

Museum Announces Additional Apollo Programming Details

04.18.2019
Smithsonian Channel Air and Space Museum Public Programs
National Museum of African American History and Culture Releases “A Is for All the Things You Are: A Joyful ABC Book”

Children’s Book Showcases the Museum’s Early Childhood Education Mission

04.15.2019
Smithsonian Books African American Museum
Smithsonian Books Releases Bats: An Illustrated Guide to All Species

Guide to Bats Is Available Now

04.11.2019
Smithsonian Books
A still from the second naked mole-rat live webcam at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo.

Photo: Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Second Live Naked Mole-Rat Cam Is Coming to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Naked Mole-rats Will Receive Special Treat Tomorrow to Celebrate

04.11.2019
National Zoo
Smithsonian Books Releases The Last Elephants

Elephants Preservation Book Is Available Now

04.10.2019
Smithsonian Books
Credit: Julie Packard by Hope Gangloff, acrylic on canvas, 2019. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Gift of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Board of Trustees. © Hope Gangloff. Photo by Mark Gulezian / Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery Announces Newly Commissioned Portrait of Ocean Conservation Leader Julie Packard by Artist Hope Gangloff

04.10.2019
Portrait Gallery
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Plays Central Role in Capturing Landmark Black Hole Image

04.10.2019
Astrophysical Observatory Research News

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