The Institution publishes "Smithsonian" magazine monthly and "Air & Space" magazine bimonthly. "Smithsonian" was the result of Secretary of the Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley asking the retired editor of "Life" magazine Edward K. Thompson to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian Institution is interested, might be interested or ought to be interested". Another Secretary of the Smithsonian, Walter Boyne, founded "Air & Space." The Smithsonian Institute Press publishes books.
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Smithsonian Institution | Publications
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who was adam eckfeldt?
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John Adam Eckfeldt was a worker and official of the United States Mint.
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when did he start designing coins?
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1793
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which coins did he work on in the mint?
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1792 half disme
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what was his contribution as a chief coiner?
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He put aside interesting foreign coins sent to the mint as bullion. These pieces became the Mint's Cabinet, or coin collection.
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where is this collection housed?
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Smithsonian Institution
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when was it founded?
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August 10, 1846
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how many of these museums are there?
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Nineteen
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The Institution publishes "Smithsonian" magazine monthly and "Air & Space" magazine bimonthly. "Smithsonian" was the result of Secretary of the Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley asking the retired editor of "Life" magazine Edward K. Thompson to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian Institution is interested, might be interested or ought to be interested". Another Secretary of the Smithsonian, Walter Boyne, founded "Air & Space." The Smithsonian Institute Press publishes books.
Smithsonian Institution | Publications
The Smithsonian Institution began publishing consolidated compilations of quarto-sized papers in 1848, under the name "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge". In 1862 octavo-sized papers called "Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections" were added, followed by the monographic "Bulletin of the United States National Museum" in 1875, and the compiled "Proceedings of the United States National Museum" in 1878. "Annual Reports" of Smithsonian Institution administrative and scholarly achievements, and accessions to the collections, began issuing in 1881, with accession and donor information being split off in 1993 as the "Annals of the Smithsonian Institution". The "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge" ceased publication in 1916, followed by the cessation of the "Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections" in 1968, and the "Bulletin of the United States National Museum" in 1971.
Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series | History
"The Journal of Museum Studies" is an independent, not-for-profit publication dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of scholarly articles in the field of museum studies.
Museum education | Publications
Carnegie Museum of Natural History publishes scholarly journals and books including "Annals of Carnegie Museum", which offers peer-reviewed articles in organismal biology, earth sciences, and anthropology; "Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History", offering monographs or collections of related papers from symposia; and "Special Publications of Carnegie Museum", documenting special topics or areas of research.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History | Scientific publications
The Institute regularly releases important publications on History, conservation and Museology, some of the more notable ones are:
National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology | Publications
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Conservation and restoration at the Smithsonian Institution | Conservation Project/Publication
The museum provides electronic resources to schools and the public through its national education program. It maintains seven online research databases with more than 500,000 records, including the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture that document more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide. Since 1951, the museum has maintained a traveling exhibition program; as of 2013, more than 2.5 million visitors have seen the exhibitions.
Smithsonian American Art Museum | Introduction
Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.
Smithsonian (magazine) | Introduction
The museum established an in-house press shortly after its founding in 1952. Initially it published catalogues of the museum's Asian and African artworks, as well as occasional short monographs. The museum's publishing activity has increased since 1985, in connection with the large special exhibitions that it has organised since then, and it now publishes four to six new titles per year. Since 1991, the museum also publishes Artibus Asiae, a biannual scholarly journal on the arts and archaeology of Asia.
Rietberg Museum | Publishing activities
Long articles were often broken up and serialized. The quarterly pamphlets were bound together bi-annually, and at a later date were published in 14 volumes.
Dedham Historical Society and Museum | Publications
The Stellenbosch Museum has published the following books:
Stellenbosch Museum | Publications
The museum publishes four peer-reviewed monograph series issued under the collective title "Fieldiana", devoted to anthropology, botany, geology and zoology. Monographs in these series are accessible at the Internet Archive.
Field Museum of Natural History | Academic publication
Between six and eight titles are published each year in this series.
British Museum | British Museum Press
Established in 1976 with a donation from Bern Dibner, the Dibner Library is housed in the National Museum of American History. The Cullman Library of Natural History holds some 10,000 volumes published before 1840 in the fields of anthropology and natural sciences. The Cullman Library is also located at the National Museum of Natural History.
Smithsonian Libraries | Special collections
Among the ongoing social media initiatives are a blog, Facebook page, Flickr page, and a Twitter feed.
Smithsonian Libraries | Social media
Nineteen museums and galleries, as well as the National Zoological Park, comprise the Smithsonian museums. Eleven are on the National Mall, the park that runs between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol. Other museums are located elsewhere in Washington, D.C., with two more in New York City and one in Chantilly, Virginia. The Smithsonian has close ties with 168 other museums in 39 states, Panama, and Puerto Rico. These museums are known as Smithsonian Affiliated museums. Collections of artifacts are given to these museums in the form of long-term loans. The Smithsonian also has a large number of traveling exhibitions, operated through the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
Smithsonian Institution | Museums
Publications of the NONAM are usually in German language.
North America Native Museum | Publications
Around 5,000 researchers make yearly use of the museum's library and archive.
TGC Press Media Museum | Library and archive
Throughout the years, the museum has published numerous publications including the following (which are available for research purposes):
Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages | Publications
The museum publishes two journals: the "Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College", first published in 1869, and "Breviora", first published in 1956.
Museum of Comparative Zoology | Publications
Half the volumes are written and catalogued in Asian languages. Originating from the collection of four thousand monographs, periodical issues, offprints, and sales catalogues that Charles Lang Freer donated to the Smithsonian Institution as part of his gift to the nation, the F|S Library maintains the highest standards for collecting materials an active program of purchases, gifts, and exchanges. In July 1987 the library moved to its new home in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Today it supports activities of both museums, such as collection development, exhibition planning, publications, and other scholarly and educational projects. Its published and unpublished resources—in the fields of Asian art and archaeology, conservation, painting, sculpture, architecture, drawings, prints, manuscripts, books, and photography—are available to museum staff, outside researchers, and the visiting public.
Freer Gallery of Art | F|S Archives and Library
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Washington State University | Museums and collections
The Libraries has created several exhibitions, often in collaboration with other departments, organizations, and scholars within and outside the Smithsonian. Some of the exhibitions have a digital component; examples include: Additionally, SIL is the home of Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web. This database, which is international in scope, also includes all SIL exhibitions.
Smithsonian Libraries | Exhibitions
Smithsonian Research Online lists 56 publications by Selig. Selected publications include: 2019. Putting Archaeology and Anthropology into Schools: A 2019 Update Journal of Archaeology and Education 3. (With Colleen Popson). 2017 AnthroNotes. All 84 issues of AnthroNotes were catalogued, scanned, digitized, and made available online. Selig authored new abstracts for over 250 individual articles that are searchable and downloadable through keyword topics as well as by author, title, and date. AnthroNotes was published two or three times each year by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History from 1979 to 2012. Selig was co-founder and senior editor of the publication from its beginning.
Ruth O. Selig | Publications
The Smithsonian museums are the most widely visible part of the United States' Smithsonian Institution and consist of 20 museums and galleries as well as the National Zoological Park. 17 of these collections are located in Washington D.C., with 11 of those located on the National Mall. The remaining ones are in New York City and Chantilly, Virginia. The Arts and Industries Building, is only open for special events, and its newest museum building, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened in 2016. The birth of the Smithsonian Institution can be traced to the acceptance of James Smithson's legacy, willed to the United States in 1826.
List of Smithsonian museums | Introduction
In-depth collection of modern masters and works by emerging artists; cutting-edge films; sculptures by Rodin, Matisse, and Moore.
Conservation and restoration at the Smithsonian Institution | Type of objects
Museums Journal is an online resource and monthly print magazine published by the Museums Association. "Museums Journal" is a leading source of news and information for museums, galleries, heritage sites and historic houses. Simon Stephens is the current editor, with Eleanor Mills the deputy editor. "Museums Journal" is free for all individual members of the Museums Association. Non-members can subscribe. Museums Journal publishes news stories daily, Q&As with museum sector leaders, alongside monthly features, comment, news analysis, reviews, and a section dedicated to museum people.
Museums Journal | Introduction
In the 1920s, the role of publishing short papers was taken over by the "Novitates" series, and the "Bulletin" began publishing longer papers that had previously been the remit of the "Memoirs" series. Beginning with volume 23 (1907), information on anthropological matters was published in "Anthropological Papers". The "Bulletin" is currently (as of 2009) published at irregular intervals.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | Introduction
The magazine reprinted significant historical documents of American history and also some original work. In its first edition, "The American Museum" republished Thomas Paine's "Common Sense". The proposed Constitution of the United States was first published in the magazine. Contributors to the magazine included John Adams, Timothy Dwight IV, Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau, Alexander Hamilton, Francis Hopkinson, David Humphreys, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Rush, John Trumbull, George Washington and Noah Webster.
The American Museum (magazine) | Introduction
The Smithsonian gives an approximate number for artifacts and specimens of 146 million. More specifically, the collections include 30 million insects, 4.5 million plants preserved in the Museum's herbarium, and 7 million fish stored in liquid-filled jars. The museum has over 570,000 catalogued reptiles from around the world. The National Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles has more than tripled from 190,000 specimen records 1970 to over 580,000 specimen records in 2020. Of the 2 million cultural artifacts, 400,000 are photographs housed in the National Anthropological Archives. Through off-site active loan and exchange programs, the museum's collections can be accessed. As a result, 3.5 million specimens are out on loan every year.
National Museum of Natural History | Research and collections
Additional facilities are located in Maryland, New York, and Virginia. More than 200 institutions and museums in 45 states, Puerto Rico, and Panama are Smithsonian Affiliates. The Institution's 30 million annual visitors are admitted without charge. Its annual budget is around $1.2 billion, with two-thirds coming from annual federal appropriations. Other funding comes from the Institution's endowment, private and corporate contributions, membership dues, and earned retail, concession, and licensing revenue. Institution publications include "Smithsonian" and "Air & Space" magazines.
Smithsonian Institution | Introduction
[that] cleverly provokes far-reaching reconsideration of the lingering presence of blind spots and aura in today's art and culture." It was produced in a traded edition and two limited editions featuring a full-color sheet of stamps drawn from the "Manual of Lost Ideas".
Institute of Cultural Inquiry | Publications
In its early years, the Library expanded its collection mostly through such gifts as the John C. Jay conchological library, the Carson Brevoort library on fishes and general zoology, the ornithological library of Daniel Giraud Elliot, the Harry Edwards entomological library, the Hugh Jewett collection of voyages and travel and the Jules Marcou geology collection. In 1903 the American Ethnological Society deposited its library in the museum and in 1905 the New York Academy of Sciences followed suit by transferring its collection of 10,000 volumes. Today, the Library's collections contain over 550,000 volumes of monographs, serials, pamphlets, reprints, microforms, and original illustrations, as well as film, photographic, archives and manuscripts, fine art, memorabilia and rare book collections.
American Museum of Natural History | History
SIA's collections consist of archival material related to art, history, science and the humanities. This includes document, image, audio-visual, electronic, oral history and videohistory collections about expeditions, biographies, and general history about the Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Institution Archives | Collections
Smithsonian collections include 156 million artworks, artifacts, and specimens. The National Museum of Natural History houses 145 million of these specimens and artifacts, which are mostly animals preserved in Formaldehyde. The Collections Search Center has 9.9 million digital records available online. The Smithsonian Institution Libraries hold 2 million library volumes. Smithsonian Archives hold of archival material. The Smithsonian Institution has many categories of displays that can be visited at the museums. In 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft donated her inauguration gown to the museum to begin the First Ladies' Gown display, one of the Smithsonian's most popular exhibits. The museum displays treasures such as the Star-Spangled Banner, the stove pipe hat that was worn by President Abraham Lincoln, the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard Of Oz", and the original Teddy Bear that was named after President Theodore Roosevelt.
Smithsonian Institution | Collections
In their place, the Smithsonian Institution began publication of a variety of different series focused on specific areas of scientific or societal study.
Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series | History
The museum project creators have proposed a number of components to be considered for a final institution. Among these are a permanent exhibition (tentatively called "The Story of the American People"), a Center for the Advanced Study of the American People drawing upon a group of over 145 scholars who have offered their support to the project, a National Genealogical Center, an Education and Resource Center and an archival library of American Migration and Immigration. In addition, the permanent collection is intended to be presented in a narrative manner, told in four chapters: Chapter I, The First Peoples Come, 20,000 before present (est.)-1607 Chapter II, The Nation Takes Form, 1607-1820 Chapter III, The Great In-Gathering, 1820-1924 Chapter IV, And Still They Come, 1924–present
National Museum of the American People | Museum contents and exhibitions
The museum has put on hundreds of exhibitions since its founding. Many exhibitions are groundbreaking and promote new scholarship within the field of American art. What follows is a brief list of selected, and more recent, examples:
Smithsonian American Art Museum | Selected exhibitions
Museums: Other: General/Academic:
John H. Falk | External links
Its limited-edition prints are numbered and signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Smithsonian.
S. Dillon Ripley Center | Introduction
The art museum has issued a number of publications. A selected sample of these publications include:
MacKenzie Art Gallery | Publications
Included in this collection are biographical files, arranged by name, with coverage of about 9,000 artists, photographers, and collectors. These biographical files offer researchers a wealth of newspaper clippings, small exhibition catalogs, resumes, journal and periodical articles, reproductions, event invitations and announcements, portfolios, bibliographies, and similar material from which to draw. The ACMAA library houses a number of rare illustrated books. These titles are useful for their textual information and valuable as works of art for their original prints. Among the illustrated books in the library collection are "American Ornithology, or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States" (Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1809–14), the first bird book published in the United States and the first outstanding American color plate book; and "The Aboriginal Port-folio" (Philadelphia: J.O.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art | Library and archives
On February 25, 2020, The Smithsonian announced their : this landmark OA initiative releases 2.8 million images into the public domain, making countless collections across the Smithsonian available to Wikimedia projects.
Smithsonian Institution | New Open Access Policy
The collections held by the Libraries reflect the various disciplines and scholarly pursuits of the curators and researchers of the Smithsonian Institution. Strengths in the collections include the following areas:
Smithsonian Libraries | Subjects
A collection of her papers is held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
Jennett Lam | Introduction
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Mr. Raku Kichizaemon, Kyoto, Japan The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Susan Hale Kemenyffy | Selected collections
The word "University" was dropped from the institutional name in 2008. The collections include approximately 250,000 objects in all media, ranging in date from antiquity to the present and originating in Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Harvard Art Museums | Introduction
This research can be reflected in KNM's restoration and preservation strategies.
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum | Research
GRI publishes "Series Imprints" books in the categories of "Issues and Debates", "Texts & Documents", "Introduction To" (on "cultural heritage information in electronic form"), and "ReSources" (on the library's special collections). In addition, GRI publishes exhibition catalogs and other materials in hardcopy form. Here are selected books published by GRI, by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, by the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, by the Getty Information Institute, or by the Art History Information Program.
Getty Research Institute | Publications
The institute’s publication program is rounded out by numerous co-editions developed with partner institutions. Alongside print editions, the DFK Paris now produces digital editions, following an open access policy.
German Center for Art History | Publications
The American Museum (also known as, The American Museum; or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces &c. Prose and Poetical and The American Museum, or, Universal Magazine) was a monthly American literary magazine published by Mathew Carey in the late-18th century. "The American Museum" "shares with the "Columbian Magazine" the honor of being the first successful American magazine." Carey established the magazine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using $400 that was given to him by Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Carey published a total of 72 issues (twelve volumes) of the magazine—one each month from January 1787 to December 1792.
The American Museum (magazine) | Introduction
American Museum Novitates is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Museum of Natural History. It was established in 1921. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 1.636.
American Museum Novitates | Introduction
Curator: The Museum Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the California Academy of Sciences. The journal was established in 1958. Its editor-in-chief is Zahava D. Doering (Smithsonian Institution). The journal covers museum administration, research, exhibition development, visitor studies, conservation, museum education, collection management, and other subjects of current concern to museum professionals. It is abstracted and indexed in CSA ARTbibliographies Modern.
Curator: The Museum Journal | Introduction
The Smithsonian collection is anything but random. Each of its objects has a scope that encompasses answers to questions as yet unasked, from photography, providing a multiplicity of meaning a single image, to the National Zoo, housing animals and DNA for study in future centuries.
Stories from the Vaults | Episode 7: "Random"
In celebration of the Centennial the Museum published eighteen new books, twelve directly related to the anniversary and six to other aspects of its collections. Among them were "Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art", written by "New Yorker" staff writer Calvin Tomkins and published in 1970, which serves as an official history of the institution, and a centennial issue of the Metropolitan Museum Journal published to coincide with the celebrations’ conclusion in 1971. Other initiatives included educational programs, book publishing, television programs, film projects, and receptions to coincide with meetings of professional organizations including the American Association of Museums.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial | Publications and centennial initiatives
Several years later, large donations of artifact collections led to the formation of new museums for subjects such as African art, American Indian culture and postal history and a new library branch was subsequently formed for each of these as well.
Smithsonian Libraries | History
Museo Galileo publishes historical scientific works and two journals, which are "", and "Galilaeana", devoted to research about the figure, work and scientific findings of Galileo Galilei. The Nuncius Library series publishes the results of original research in the history of science and technology as well as editions of sources, while the Galilaeana Library series publishes critical essays, document collections and text editions related to Galileo. To be mentioned also the Archive of Italian Scientists’ Correspondence and the Italian Science Library series. In addition, the Museum publishes catalogues relevant to its collections and the temporary exhibitions it promotes.
Museo Galileo | Publications
Center publications include "Pigeons on the Grass Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk About the Field", "The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory", and "What Makes a Great Exhibition?", an essay anthology that examines various components of exhibition-making, edited by Paula Marincola. In 2011, the Center published "Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World", an anthology of thought pieces and case studies related to shared historical authority in museums and public humanities projects. The anthology explores subfields such as oral history and digital humanities to interrogate the changing nature of expertise in the museum field, and considers co-curation as a method for encouraging public engagement.
Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage | Publications and research
Congress." In 1859, Congress transferred the library's public document distribution activities to the Department of the Interior and its international book exchange program to the Department of State. During the 1850s, Smithsonian Institution librarian Charles Coffin Jewett aggressively tried to make the Smithsonian into the United States' national library. His efforts were blocked by Smithsonian secretary Joseph Henry, who advocated a focus on scientific research and publication. To reinforce his intentions for the Smithsonian, Henry established laboratories, developed a robust physical sciences library and started the "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge", the first of many publications intended to disseminate research results.
Library of Congress | 1851–1865: Weakening
McEntee's journals are now kept by the Archives of American Art, a research center within the Smithsonian Institution. Five volumes of these diaries, from 1872 to 1890, have been digitally scanned, transcribed, and can be browsed in their entirety online. In addition, the Archives holds McEntee's personal papers, which were digitized in 2007.
Jervis McEntee | Journals
American Art has seven online research databases, which has more than 500,000 records of artworks in public and private collections worldwide, including the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture. Numerous researchers and millions of virtual visitors per year use these databases. Also, American Art and Heritage Preservation work together in a joint project, Save Outdoor Sculpture, "dedicated to the documentation and preservation of outdoor sculpture". The museum produces a peer-reviewed periodical, "American Art" (started in 1987), for new scholarship. Since 1993, American Art has been had an online presence. It has one of the earliest museum websites when, in 1995, it launched its own website.
Smithsonian American Art Museum | Outreach
Smithsonian Libraries (SIL), formerly known as Smithsonian Institution Libraries, is a library system comprising 20 branch libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution museums and research centers, as well as central support services which include a Book Conservation Laboratory and an Imaging Center. The Libraries serve Smithsonian Institution staff as well as the scholarly community and general public with information and reference support. Its collections number over 1.5 million volumes including 40,000 rare books and 2,000 manuscripts. The Libraries also holds the United States' largest trade literature collection, which includes over 300,000 commercial catalogs dating from the early nineteenth century and representing more than 30,000 companies.
Smithsonian Libraries | Introduction
The Smithsonian Institution provides access to its image collections for educational, scholarly, and nonprofit uses. Commercial uses are generally restricted unless permission is obtained. Smithsonian images fall into different copyright categories; some are protected by copyright, many are subject to license agreements or other contractual conditions, and some fall into the public domain, such as those prepared by Smithsonian employees as part of their official duties. The Smithsonian's terms of use for its digital content, including images, are set forth on the Smithsonian Web site. In April 2006, the institution entered into an agreement of "first refusal" rights for its vast silent and public domain film archives with Showtime Networks, mainly for use on the Smithsonian Channel, a network created from this deal.
Smithsonian Institution | Copyright restrictions
World's largest stamp gallery, full-size Freight-liner semi-truck cab cutaway, vintage mail planes, stagecoach, 1931 Ford Model A postal truck, replica of a railway car; and videos.
Conservation and restoration at the Smithsonian Institution | Type of Objects
The museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair. The museum maintains a temporary exhibition program of traveling shows as well as in-house produced topical exhibitions. The professional staff maintains collections of over 24 million specimens and objects that provide the basis for the museum’s scientific-research programs. These collections include the full range of existing biodiversity, gems, meteorites, fossils, and rich anthropological collections and cultural artifacts from around the globe. The museum's library, which contains over 275,000 books, journals, and photo archives focused on biological systematics, evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, ethnology and material culture, supports the museum’s academic-research faculty and exhibit development.
Field Museum of Natural History | Introduction
Gilliam's work is part of the permanent collections of 56 museums including:
Sam Gilliam | Selected museum collections
Smithsonian Research Online is a database of bibliographic citations and full texts of publications by Smithsonian Institution scholars. It is managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Access to the database is free. The database contained some 10,000 citations as of 2011. An increasing proportion of the citations includes full texts. Purposes of the database include facilitating discovery of Smithsonian research publications and "assisting in measuring and communicating the magnitude, value, and impact of Smithsonian research."
Smithsonian Research Online | Introduction
Some of the famous books and monographs published by the institution are -
United Service Institution | Publications
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational foundation that was created with the funds from British scientist James Smithson in 1846. The institution is composed of 19 museums and one zoo in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian's locations had a combined total of 30 million visits in 2013. The most visited museum is the National Museum of Natural History on the National Mall. Other Smithsonian Institution museums and galleries on the mall are the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of African Art, the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Sackler and Freer galleries, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Arts and Industries Building, the S.
Arts and culture of Washington, D.C. | Smithsonian Institution
The book has been reviewed in the following journals: The book is indexed by DBLP. There is a Master of Science (M.S.) in "Museums and Digital Culture" (MDC) at the Pratt Institute in the School of Information.
Museums and Digital Culture | Reviews
Publications of findings can be found in various journals including the Geo-Pal, an online Uganda Scientific Journal.
Uganda Museum | Publications
In 2008, 58 of these traveling exhibitions went to 510 venues across the country. The Smithsonian Institution announced in January 2015 that it is in talks to build its first permanent overseas exhibition space within London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Smithsonian Institution | Museums
The program was received by museums across the country. The end of the fiscal year 1997 recognized 21 organizations as Affiliates. As of 2017, there are over 200 Affiliates.
Smithsonian Affiliations | Growth of the program
The yearbook was designed to disclose data on all activities and events in a calendar year: news, information on curator's results, collections arrangements, training and workshops, published papers, participation at conferences, media appearances, the work of the library, educational work and the like activities.
Museum of Natural History, Belgrade | Museum publishing activity
Nevertheless, the magazine was short lived. Only two volumes of the magazine were published and it ceased to exist after 1839.
Nathan C. Brooks | "The American Museum"
According to the "Ask Art" website, referenced on 1/25/02, and The Smithsonian art archive, museums that today include Arthur Hill Gilbert in their collections include:
Arthur Hill Gilbert | Museum collections
NMIHACM has access to a well stocked library maintained at National Museum Institute which is equipped with a fully automated digital library consisting of 68,014 slides, apart from the hard copy collections. Many journals subscribed by the library is also accessible to NMIHACM.
National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology | Library
The Smithsonian Institution ( ), also known simply as The Smithsonian, is a trust instrumentality of the United States composed as a group of museums and research centers. It was founded on August 10, 1846, "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. It was originally organized as the "United States National Museum", but that name ceased to exist as an administrative entity in 1967. Termed "the nation's attic" for its eclectic holdings of 154 million items, the Institution's 19 museums, 21 libraries, nine research centers, and zoo include historical and architectural landmarks, mostly located in the District of Columbia.
Smithsonian Institution | Introduction
The Khalili Collections are represented in 70 publications, including exhibition catalogues, with work in progress to extend this to 100. The total costs associated with the conservation, research, scholarship and publication of the collections are estimated to be in the tens of millions of pounds.
Khalili Collections | Publications
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web is an international database of online exhibitions which is a service of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web | Introduction
At present the library accommodates over 12 million titles including the broad classifications of: Document types include:
National Museum Library | Collection
Some of the species kept here are, American bison, hooded cranes, red-crowned cranes, white-naped crane, maned wolves, cheetahs, a mariana crow, black-footed ferrets, persian onagers, Hartmann's mountain zebras and scimitar-horned oryxs.
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute | Specimens
Founded in 1900 by the American Museum of Natural History, "Natural History" was first titled The American Museum Journal. In 2002, the magazine was purchased from the Museum by a new company, headed at the time by Charles Harris. As of 2013 the magazine is published in North Carolina by Howard Richman. There are 10 issues published annually. Since its founding, "Natural History" has chronicled the major expeditions and research findings by curators at the American Museum of Natural History and at other natural history museums and science centers. Stephen Jay Gould's column, "This View of Life," was a regular feature of the magazine from 1974 until he retired the column in 2001.
Natural History (magazine) | History
It was first published in 1901. Elijah Howarth was the first editor, and remained editor until 1909, when he resigned. Peter van Mensch described the publication as "the first national journal for the museum field as a whole".
Museums Journal | History
Publications include a quarterly magazine, All About Glass, (1993–present), a series of monographs on various glass topics (over 150 titles), and a book publishing imprint, The Glass Flakes Press, which has published 10 titles since its inception in 2013.
Museum of American Glass in West Virginia | Publications
The Museum also regularly publishes on subjects pertaining to the history of finance. Its quarterly magazine, "Financial History", reaches members in 50 US states and 20 other countries. The magazine publishes vetted articles by financial historians and journalists on historically significant events and individuals and other related topics in the world of finance. In 2011, the Museum commemorated the 100th issue of "Financial History" with a full-color double edition. The Museum also publishes books and catalogs including, most recently, "The Revolutionary Beginning of the American Stock Market", which features many of the documents in the "America's First IPO" exhibit.
Museum of American Finance | Publications
Notable past and current contributors to "Smithsonian" have included:
Smithsonian (magazine) | Contributors
The Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series is a collection of serial periodical publications produced by the Smithsonian Institution, detailing advances in various scientific and societal fields to which the Smithsonian Institution has made contributions.
Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series | Introduction
The museum publishes several books and four periodicals, including Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.
Hungarian Natural History Museum | Publications
The British Museum Press (BMP) is the publishing business and a division of the British Museum Company Ltd., a company and a charity (established in 1973) wholly owned by the trustees of the British Museum. The BMP publishes both popular and scholarly illustrated books to accompany the exhibition programme and explore aspects of the general collection. Profits from their sales goes to support the British Museum. Scholarly titles are published in the Research Publications series, all of which are peer-reviewed. This series was started in 1978 and was originally called Occasional Papers. The series is designed to disseminate research on items in the collection.
British Museum | British Museum Press
The following list of Barbara Harrisson's publications is a selection of books, articles, and descriptions of ceramics collections in museums.
Barbara Harrisson | Publications
(The Smithsonian Castle and the Pension Building, now the National Building Museum, are other exceptions.) An additional structure was attached to its north in later years. The activities of the GPO are defined in the public printing and documents chapters of Title 44 of the United States Code. The Director (formerly the Public Printer), who serves as the head of the GPO, is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director selects a Superintendent of Documents. The Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) is in charge of the dissemination of information at the GPO. This is accomplished through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), the Cataloging and Indexing Program and the Publication Sales Program, as well as operation of the Federal Citizen Information Center in Pueblo, Colorado.
United States Government Publishing Office | History
The permanent collection has not changed since it opened in 2001. The museum has been collecting since 1902, and the collection dates back to 1610. The collection is divided into three major categories: magazines, political cartoons, and archives.
Press Museum | Permanent collection
At the National Museum of Natural History, the Anthropology Conservation Laboratory (ACL) conducts conservation on the National Museum of Natural history's more than 126 million natural science specimens and cultural artifacts. The ACL provides professional care for collections; reviews prospective acquisitions and loans; prepares collections for exhibit and loan; maintains objects on exhibit in the National Museum of Natural History; reviews sampling requests; advises on object care; and implements preventive conservation projects.
Conservation and restoration at the Smithsonian Institution | National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Affiliate organizations share research, exhibitions, and institutional updates through a variety of social media including the Smithsonian Affiliations website, the Affiliate Blog, the quarterly newsletter "The Affiliate", the electronic newsletter "E-Affiliate", YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter.
Smithsonian Affiliations | Social media
According to the Institute of Museum and Library Services press release of Grants to Museums in 2014: "The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will digitize significant volumes from the Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books, in the Clark Library, and make these materials available through the library's digital collections interface, the Internet Archive, the Getty Research Portal, the Massachusetts Digital Commonwealth, and the Digital Public Library of America. The museum will digitize 185 of the collection's 283 volumes and enhance cataloging and metadata for the more than 107,000 images in the collection, including a significant number of rare titles and unique volumes dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.
Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books | Introduction
The museum has collections of old master prints and drawings and a comprehensive collection of over 27,000 original photographs. African art and Northwest Coast Indian art are also represented. The Museum also oversees the outdoor Putnam Collection of Sculpture.
Princeton University | Art Museum
Annals of Carnegie Museum is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It was established in 1901 by the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute. The journal is distributed both in print and online. The museum's Office of Scientific Publications also publishes the "Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History" and "Special Publications of Carnegie Museum". The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index, Scopus, Biosis, and Geobase. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.724, ranking it 38th out of 49 journals in the category "Paleontology" and 115th out of 153 journals in the category "Zoology".
Annals of Carnegie Museum | Introduction
The Smithsonian Institution is an alternate history novel by Gore Vidal, first published in 1998. The novel is a fictional account of the adventures of "T." as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create the neutron bomb, and encounters historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
The Smithsonian Institution (novel) | Introduction
The entire 20 volumes of narrative text and photogravure images for each volume are online. Each volume is accompanied by a portfolio of large photogravure plates. The online publishing was supported largely by funds from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Edward S. Curtis | Northwestern University