This is a sampling of approximately 4,410 media clips covering the Smithsonian the week of April 26 – April 30, 2021. Continue reading ICYMI: Highlights from the week of April 26 – 30, 2021
In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America’s furious and fractious politics Continue reading 19th-Century America’s Partisan Warfare
Apollo 11 astronaut and former director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum passed away on April 28 at age 90. Continue reading Remembering Michael Collins
This is a sampling of approximately 3.650 media clips covering the Smithsonian the week of April 19 – April 32, 2021. Continue reading ICYMI: Highlights from the week that was April 19 – April 23, 2021
Love them or hate them, this year the D.C. metro area is going to encounter a phenomenon that only happens once every 17 years. We will see billions of insects – more specifically, cicadas – crowding our region for a four-to-six-week period in the late spring through early summer. Horticulturist Holly Walker explains this creepy-crawly phenomenon. Continue reading Brood X: The cicadas are coming!
Rich Reichley, director of finance and operations at the National Portrait Gallery, was persuaded by Smithsonian friends to share his story of donating a kidney to a stranger on the West Coast. The Torch’s Amy Rogers Nazarov thought that hearing the story in Rich’s own inimitable voice was the best way to share this journey of generosity, humor and hope. Continue reading Rich Reichley donates a gift beyond price
In this episode of Sidedoor, find out what happens to an unglamorous river herring when someone gives a dam. Continue reading Sidedoor: Holding out for a herring
This is a sampling of approximately 1,930 media clips covering the Smithsonian the week of April 12 – 19, 2021. Continue reading ICYMI: Highlights from the week that was April 12 – 19, 2021
The Smithsonian has launched a new national initiative to foster vaccine education in communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and with low confidence in COVID-19 vaccines. Continue reading Vaccines & US: Cultural Organizations for Community Health
Kinshasha Holman Conwill, deputy director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery, are among the 2021 electees to the prestigious Academy Continue reading Two Smithsonian colleagues elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Vote now for the Autumn 2025 Windows Lock Screen. Voting ends Sunday, September 21st! Continue reading Vote now for the Autumn 2025 Windows Lock Screen
(Ed. note: We should note that it's never wise to stand behind a cow, even a buttery one. Cow pies never win blue ribbons.) Continue reading Behind the Butter Cow: A Look at the Renwick’s new State Fair exhibition
More than $2.5 million in grants has been awarded to fund projects ranging from exposing little kids to nature, the link between movement and emotional wellbeing and building a robotic telescope. Continue reading 2025 Together we Thrive
Melanie Adams will serve as interim director beginning August 26. Continue reading Director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum is stepping down
