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The Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation was created with initial funding of $100,000, provided by Eleanor McMillan, which supported the salary of a paper conservator. The Institutional History Division has authored an online history of the Smithsonian, and provides web access to over 3,000 digital images.
With just a month left before its reopening, you can now claim your space to see the National Air and Space Museum's new galleries.
Aviation and spaceflight history Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1946, 1976 [note 1] [13] National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Aviation and spaceflight history Chantilly, Virginia: 2003 [14] National Museum of African American History and Culture: African-American history and culture: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 2003 ...
The offer includes a free admission for the ticket holder plus one guest and this ticket is specific to the chosen museum only. [9] The intention is for one ticket per person in contrast to the International Museum Day, when participating museums generally offer entirely free admission throughout the day.
Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day will return in September, giving guests free access to museums, zoos and cultural centers all over the country.
The Castle in April 1865 "The Castle" (built, 1847) on the National Mall: the institution's earliest building remains its headquarters.. In many ways, the origin of the Smithsonian Institution can be traced to a group of Washington citizens who, being "impressed with the importance of forming an association for promoting useful knowledge," met on June 28, 1816, to establish the Columbian ...
The Smithsonian Institution began publishing consolidated compilations of quarto-sized papers in 1848, under the name Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. [1] In 1862 octavo-sized papers called Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections were added, [1] followed by the monographic Bulletin of the United States National Museum in 1875, [1] and the compiled Proceedings of the United States National ...
The collection documents the history of anthropology and the world's peoples and cultures, and is used in indigenous language revitalization. It is located in the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, and is part of the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History.