22 Sep
Innovative Lunder Conservation Center Receives Prestigious Keck Award
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Gives Keck Award to the SAAM and NPG Conservation Lab
Washington, DC- Today, the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works awarded the prestigious Keck Award to the
Lunder
Conservation
Center, which is jointly administered by the
Smithsonian
American
Art Museum […]
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19 Sep
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the Smithsonian
Washington, DC- From Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, the Smithsonian celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a series of performances, lectures, exhibitions, family activities and tours at various museums around the Institution. All programs are free, unless otherwise indicated. For a full calendar of events, visit […]
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05 Sep
“Moving Perspectives: Video Art from Asia”
Opens Sept. 6 at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
The expressive possibilities of moving image and sound have inspired many Asian artists to examine the relationship between past and present through the video medium. “Moving Perspectives: Video Art from Asia” at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery […]
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05 Sep
Spectacular Grand Canyon Photography Explored in New Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition
Washington, DC- The
Grand Canyon is wild and unforgiving. But it is also one of the most stunning landscapes on Earth-a place for recreation, reflection and reverence. A new Smithsonian exhibition allows us to marvel at this natural wonder without camping equipment, emergency […]
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28 Aug
Smithsonian “Earth from Space” Exhibition to Appear in Classrooms Across the Country
Washington, DC- Beginning this fall, students across the country will be able to experience a Smithsonian exhibition in their own schools. The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, is providing a free poster […]
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27 Aug
[ August 28, 2008; 11:30 am to 7:00 pm. ]
Photograph of Michael Phelps by Ryan McGinley to be installed at the National Portrait Gallery
WHAT: Photograph of Michael Phelps by Ryan McGinley to be installed at the National Portrait Gallery
WHEN: On view beginning Aug. […]
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15 Aug
Freer and Sackler Galleries’ Fall Programs Feature a Weekend Celebration of India
This fall the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presents exciting public programs to commence the season. On Oct. 18 and 19, the galleries’ celebrate the opening of “Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur,” […]
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11 Aug
Smithsonian Exhibition Explores the Role of Fences in America: Traveling to Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky and South Dakota
Washington, DC-Fences are icons of the American landscape. They can be used to create a welcoming picture of home or a wall of privacy and security. Fences have pitted rancher against rancher in the […]
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21 Jul
Eldredge Bermingham Is Named Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Eldredge “Biff” Bermingham has been named the director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, Panama, effective Sept. 28. Bermingham has been STRI’s acting director since March 2007. He joined the institute’s scientific staff in 1989 and has served […]
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17 Jul
The National Portrait Gallery Presents “One Life: The Mask of Lincoln” in Celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th Anniversary
Washington, DC- Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809-April 15, 1865) is one of
America’s most revered presidents. His leadership during
America’s most divisive crisis, the Civil War, was essential to the abolition of slavery and the […]
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