“Blossom Time” (detail), Willard Metcalf (1858–1925), United States, 1910, oil on canvas, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art Collection, Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1915.27a-b
Engaging a Multiplicity of Viewpoints, Exhibition Looks at Paintings of New England From a New Angle, Considers Human Impact, Indigenous Histories and Environmental Changes
Festival Is Dedicated to Well-Being in Asian American and Asian Diasporic Communities—and Celebrates Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
“No More Segregated Education,” print of 1964 photograph by Frank Espada. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Copyright Estate of Frank Espada.
The splendid deep-sea coral Iridogorgia sp. Deep-sea octocorals that are known to be bioluminescent. Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.
Study Focuses on an Ancient Group of Marine Invertebrates That Includes Soft Corals, Pushes Back the Previous Oldest Dated Example of Trait by Nearly 300 Million Years
Rendering of a 3D model of “The Last Supper” sculpture by Akili Ron Anderson, 1982; digitally recreated 2021.
Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, original artwork Copyright Akili Ron Anderson.
Mosul Cultural Museum Director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah (right) and Head of Conservation Saad Ahmed (left), examine the cenotaph of Imam Yahya b. Al Qasim (carved in 1239) as part of a joint Iraqi-Smithsonian survey of damage after ISIS occupation. Photo by Sebastian Meyer for the Smithsonian Institution.
The museum’s fossil specimen of Allosaurus fragilis is perched like a nesting bird guarding a clutch of fossilized eggs. Credit: USNM V 4734, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Mike Gaudaur.
Displayed in the National Museum of Natural History’s Deep Time Fossil Hall, the Allosaurus Fossil Is Now the Name-Bearing Specimen for the Entire Species
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute welcomed two pygmy slow lorises babies March 21 to mother Naga and father Pabu in the Small Mammal House. Credit: Kara Ingraham, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
National Archives, Washington, DC | Transcript: Originally published in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, 1904; digitized by Oklahoma State University.
Visitors at the Anacostia Community Museum’s 2023 Honor the Earth Celebration plant the museum’s garden to start the spring season. Credit: Matilong Duma.
