Two Smithsonian volunteers are featured on local radio in profiles that highlight their work and their journey to volunteering. Continue reading Meet the Docents: Smithsonian volunteers take to the airwaves
If you’re feeling overworked and overwhelmed or just need advice on planning for retirement or kicking off a weight-loss plan, Paige K. Jones and the Office of Human Resources are here to help. Continue reading I’m stressed, depressed, and my dog hates me. Help!
The Smithsonian’s Office of Digital Transformation has launched Kaleidoscope: Patterns of Resilience, a website and multichannel tour experience highlighting stories from across the Smithsonian that explore the concept of resilience. Continue reading Introducing “Kaleidoscope: Patterns of Resilience”
The Smithsonian has awarded fellowships to 10 accomplished visual artists from an international pool of candidates as part of the 2024 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program. Continue reading 2024 Artist Research Fellowships announced
Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, collecting items from clothing to signs that will help tell the story of the 2024 presidential election. Continue reading ‘MAGA BLACK’ hats, clear swag bags, the first Trump/Vance signs: Highlights of what the Smithsonian is archiving from the Republican convention
How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap. Continue reading The Conversation: Explaining the present to the future
A new Smithsonian paper posits that Swainson’s warblers have tornadoes to thank for ideal habitats. Continue reading Tiny Tornado Chasers: Why Rare Songbirds Rely on Destructive Winds
John Grant has been searching for evidence that life may have once existed on Mars since he was 16 years old. Continue reading A Smithsonian scientist’s decades-long search for life on Mars
The first female curator in the National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Dr. Pettibone described 172 species and fought for the recognition of women in science. Continue reading Dr. Marian Pettibone Discovered and Described New Forms of Oceanic Life
The time has finally come: participants have arrived from across the United States and nine other nations, and we invite you to meet them at the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival! Continue reading Your Guide to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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
