On #ThisDayInHistory in 2025, a horrifically #neonazi #ExecutiveOrder targeted the #Smithsonian with a defence of literal "#ScientificRacism". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that #race is a human invention, a #SocialConstruct.
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15 immagini meravigliose dell’Africa occidentale dal #concorso #fotografico dello #Smithsonian Magazine

Un viaggio in Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso e in molte altre nazioni attraverso questa galleria dedicata alle persone, alla cultura e alla fauna della regione […]

The National Air and Space Museum Without the Crowds National Air and Space Museum exhibits include items from the Spirit of St. Louis, Apollo 11, and Star Trek. How to visit without the crowds.

Learn just how bad you’d be at flying a fighter plane at D.C.’s National Air and Space Museum — or at it’s much less crowded (but spectacular!) branch in Virginia. #smithsonian #nationalairandspacemuseum #visitdc #spacegeek #travelsky #overtourism

The National Air and Space Museum Without the Crowds National Air and Space Museum exhibits include items from the Spirit of St. Louis, Apollo 11, and Star Trek. How to visit without the crowds.

Learn just how bad you’d be at flying a fighter plane at D.C.’s National Air and Space Museum — or at the museum's much less crowded location in Virginia. #travelsky #smithsonian #nationalairandspacemuseum #visitdc #overtourism #spacegeek

A new exhibition at the #Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, showcases #LGBTQ+ contemporary #artists across #Africa and its #diasporas. It features almost sixty works and runs until August 2026. africa.si.edu/exhibitions/...

Fun at the smithsonian day two
#pencildrawing #watercolor #art #seaotters #harpseal #okapi #wildebeest #earlydog #fossils #animalart #smithsonian #smithsoniannaturalhistorymuseum

See the 2,500-Pound Bronze Bison as They Arrive at Their New, Permanent Place at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History More than a century ago, the massive mammals actually grazed beside the Smithsonian Castle. As of today, two large sculptures continue that legacy as they flank the museum’s main entrance

See the 2,500-Pound Bronze Bison as They Arrive at Their New, Permanent Place at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History: More than a century ago, the massive mammals actually grazed beside the Smithsonian Castle. As… @SmithsonianMag #Smithsonian #NaturalHistory #Bison #Sculpture #Art

Teenagers are AWESOME🌟

In Virginia teenager Mia Heller has created a "filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water." How cool is that🥳 #thereisgood❤️

Thanks #Smithsonian😊 www.smithsonianmag.com/inno...

Fun at the smithsonian natural history museum.
#Smithsonian #art #pencil

Getting to the #Smithsonian museums today by driving takes an hour and 10 minutes, by Metro it takes 30 minutes. 🤔 it’s almost faster to walk the 3.5 miles than drive.
(Initially yesterday they said rain would be in forecast I thought I’d do a museum but it’s gorgeous today, will stay outside)

Trump is angry at the #Smithsonian for being overly concerned about how slavery was bad.

Unbelievable! Slavery is bad, period, case closed.

🏛️ House Administration Committee Advances Women’s History Museum Bill Amid Clash Over Biological Definition

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#News #Politics #Government #HouseCommittee #Smithsonian #WomensMuseum #Transgender #Democrats

View Australia’s Wonderful Wildlife, Including Kangaroos, Koalas and Crocs, With These 15 Photographs See some darling—and some dangerous—animals in images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

"Australia is home to some of the world’s most distinct and recognizable wildlife. It’s the native habitat of kangaroos, koalas, emus, Tasmanian devils and a host of other species that cannot be found anywhere else in nature."
📸🐨🦘🐊🐹🦤 #Photography #Australia #Wildlife #Smithsonian #Travel #Nature

View 60 Captivating Finalists From the 23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. Then, Vote for Your Favorite! This year’s finalists carry us across landscapes and cultures, into moments with people and wildlife. Now, you too can select the one you deem most deserving of the Readers' Choice award.

"Photographers from around the world entered more than 17,000 images into the 23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. Spanning six categories, 60 marvelous photographs were chosen by the magazine's editors as finalists."
Amazing pics! 📸🌄👳🏽‍♀️🐒🏯 #Photography #Smithsonian #Arts #Culture

Photo of part of a mural from the Oglesby, Illinois Post Office, depicting Native Americans battling each other. The images in the painting are wavy and flowing.

Struggle at Starved Rock(?) (mural study, Oglesby, Illinois Post Office), ca. 1941-42 — Artist: Fay Elizabeth Davis, born Indianapolis, IN 1916-died Manatee, FL 1997

#Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Internal Revenue Service through the General Services Administration

100 years later, where is Robert Goddard's first liquid-fuel rocket? https://arstechni.ca #RoswellMuseumandArtsCenter #NationalAirandSpaceMuseum #liquidfuelrocket #Spaceexploration #ClarkUniversity #spaceartifacts #massachusetts #robertgoddard #spacehistory #Anniversary #Smithsonian…

This is stupid. Why on earth can't you trim whitespace.

#UX #webdesign #smithsonian #smithsonianfolkways

A 6-line miniature poem, in two stanzas of 3 lines each, dated 2024, author's name at top, accompanied by a screen capture of a news story published by Space.com, about an ill-fated lunar exploration journey, with robots aboard, intended as autonomous lunar rovers. q.v. the Proyecto Colmena ('beehive' project). They never made it to their destination, never had a chance to show how they might have survived the inhospitable conditions, such as the abrasive lunar dust... A couple of perfunctory hotlinks, incomplete URLs, appended at the bottom.

When these survival specialists ( 'Überlebenskünstler' or 'Sobrevivientes' ) were headed to the moon, to make their remote lunar forays, I put together this #Instapoem
#ImageAndVerse
#ThrowbackThursday
Replicas of the solar-powered bots on display at #Smithsonian #Air&Space #Museum
prompt 'Technik'

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We've learned so much about our home and still know so little about this amazing little ball of wonders upon which we live:

#link: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/treetops-emit... […]

A sign in the Smithsonian American History Museum. "American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith

This sign at the #Smithsonian Museum of American History is hitting a little different this days.

A beauty tonight, Washington, DC.
#photography #smithsonian #washingtonDC #EastCoastKin #thePhotoHour #hope #travelPhotography

#art #fineart #artstream #artreview #artdiscussion #artcritique #arttalk #patricksaunders #patricksaundersfinearts #representationalart #realistart #floralart #floralpainting #oilpainting #MuseumTourTuesday #americanpainting #americanart #americanartist #mariadewing #smithsonian

Rã endêmica do Panamá, extinta em 2009 por fungo mortal, é reintroduzida na natureza A reintrodução ajudará a encontrar soluções para driblar a doença e garantir o retorno de anfíbios saudáveis à natureza

Atentos à possibilidade de #extinção da #rã-dourada-do-Panamá, há cerca de 20 anos, especialistas do Instituto #Smithsonian (e outras instituições) coletaram indivíduos p/ criação em #cativeiro. No final de 2025, soltaram 100 #rãs em recintos controlados na #natureza, a fim de facilitar a observação

Three aircraft hang from girders below the ceiling in an open multi-story space at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Spirit of St. Louis, circa 1927, hangs on the left, with the modern Space Ship One and the Bell X-1 to its right. Sunlight streams in from floor-to-ceiling windows on the right side of the room, lighting the scene and creating plaid-like shadows on the wall.

The old and the new. Time flies.
#WeekJforJuxtaposition #AlphabetChallenge
#Smithsonian #Air&Space #airplanes

BHI fellow Chengcheng Xin will share her research on supermassive black hole binaries at the next UMBRELLA Dialogues.

March 11, 2026
3:00 pm

Zoom:
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Passcode: 327700

#bhi #umbreladialogues #ChengchengXin #blackhole #Smithsonian #CFA #supermassiveblackhole

#Smithsonian

WE CANNOT SELF-ERASE "Other museums may have a choice to downplay DEI. Black museums have no choice. We are the work. We cannot self-erase." Omar Eaton-Martinez

This post also has a great suggestion for how you can support the leadership of the #Smithsonian in pushing back against administration pressure to rewrite history. #BlackHistoryMonth #museums #history #DEI #diversity gretchenjennings.substack.com/p/we-cannot-...

Why the National Zoo is feeding its baby elephant poop In a novel move, feces from a baby elephant in Ohio were shipped to the zoo and mixed with Linh Mai’s formula.

The new baby elephant at DC's zoo is receiving fecal transplants--by mouth--to stave off diarrhea.

#Gastrosky #microbiome #guthealth #Smithsonian #veterinarymedicine #medicine #Medsky

Chicago’s Nick Cave is digging up America’s bones at a fraught moment for the Smithsonian “Mammoth” is the museum’s largest ever single-artist commission and opens Friday less than a mile from the White House.

Once you see how the political landscape can be a force in how your art unfolds you start seeing it everywhere
#potterysky #art #politicalart #smithsonian #artasactivism #sculpture #mammoth #contemporaryart #nickcave #chicagoartist
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March is Women’s History Month. The theme for 2026 is "We Do Declare: Women's Voices on Independence". Check out the video here: youtu.be/WsbGRoShxRA?...
#WomensHistoryMonth2026 #WeDoDeclare #WomensVoicesOnIndependence #Smithsonian #AmericanWomensHistoryMuseum ##NotJustTheBirdsAndTheBees