From exposing the secret lives of mammals to protecting native orchid growth, citizen scientists strengthen Smithsonian conservation around the world. Continue reading Citizen scientists: You don’t have to have a doctorate to help heal the Earth
From exposing the secret lives of mammals to protecting native orchid growth, citizen scientists strengthen Smithsonian conservation around the world. Continue reading Citizen scientists: You don’t need a doctorate to help heal the Earth
OVS welcomed staff and volunteers to an Open House March 28 in the Castle Library where guests had a chance to meet and mingle. Continue reading OVS Open House
Smithsonian volunteers play essential roles in sharing our rich collections, exhibitions, research, and educational programming with the public. We are always on the lookout for dynamic, curious individuals who want to be a part of the Smithsonian team. Continue reading Volunteer with the Smithsonian
Kent Wang introduces us to Robert Kovalchik, a docent at the National Air and Space Museum who has volunteered more than 4,000 hours over the past 25 years. Continue reading Volunteer Spotlight: Robert Kovalchik
One of the perks of being a Smithsonian volunteer is the opportunity to get behind-the-scenes peeks and everything from a Shakespeare folio to a T. rex skull. Plus, there are cookies! Continue reading Castle volunteers were out and about in 2018
Kris Hamilton introduces Jim Peterson, who volunteers with the Smithsonian Call Center and at the National Museum of Natural History. Continue reading Volunteer Spotlight: Jim Peterson
Charleen Smith-Riedel shares her father’s letters from WWII and reminds us that we should re-envision and celebrate ourselves and our nation as Americans connected by our diversity, the hallmark of our national strength and a resource worthy of protection. Continue reading Thanksgiving on the Western Front
What time does the National Mall open? Is there a Black Friday sale? Did you ever wonder who fields the thousands of phone calls and email questions the Smithsonian receives each day. Meet a few very well-informed volunteers. Continue reading Questions, questions that need answering
Kent Wang introduces us to Bob Fish, longtime docent at the Air and Space Museum, who who always manages to circle back to his first love, the Cessna 150. Continue reading Birds gotta swim, Fish gotta fly
For decades, scientists with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Conservation Ecology Center and partners have traveled to Myanmar to study Asian elephants, a species threatened by poaching, habitat loss and human-elephant conflict. Continue reading Field in Focus | Saving Elephants in Myanmar (Part 3)
From exposing the secret lives of mammals to protecting native orchid growth, citizen scientists strengthen Smithsonian conservation around the world. Continue reading Citizen scientists: You don’t need a doctorate to help heal the Earth
Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton recently tweeted his gratitude to the Smithsonian's thousands of volunteers. Follow him at https://twitter.com/David Skorton Continue reading We’re all a-twitter!
We learned about efforts to make art more representative of the nation’s citizens and Trump’s efforts to make the nation more representative of … Trump. Continue reading ICYMI: Highlights from the week of May 5 – May 11, 2019
May 19, 1883. The relics of George Washington are transferred to the National Museum. Martha is not part of the deal. Continue reading Today in Smithsonian History: May 19, 1883
