National Air and Space Museum
Events: Celebrate Kwanzaa, Get the Skinny on Rocket-Powered Aircraft and More!
Monday, December 28: Kwanzaa Workshop Series: Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)In this continuing series, come learn about the Kwanzaa principle of Ujima—collective work and responsibility—through an arts and crafts workshop. Free, but space is limited. To make a reservation, call 202-633-...
December 28, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
"Best of the Decade" with Air and Space Curator Tom Crouch
As a new decade approaches, we here at ATM thought it a good time to reflect on the last—asking Smithsonian curators to weigh in on their favorite exhibits and acquisitions since 2000.On this morning, 106 years ago, powered flight was born. Wilber and Orville Wright made four successful flights abo...
December 17, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Events for the Week of December 14-18: Harry Truman, A Doll's House, The Muppets and More!
Monday, December 14: Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence: Cultures in Motion PerformanceHarry Truman is the haberdasher-turned-world leader who supported civil rights and compulsory health insurance and whose legacy includes the controversial decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Come lear...
December 14, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Remembering Pearl Harbor
Sixty-eight years ago today, at 7:55 in the morning, the first wave of Japanese fighter planes reached Pearl Harbor on Hawaii's Oahu Island and opened fire on the anchored U.S. ships and aircraft. More than 2,400 Americans were killed in the attack. In a radio address at 12:30 p.m. the next day, Pr...
December 07, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
The Secrets Within Cosmic Dust
Dust captured by a spacecraft from a comet's tail holds clues to the origin of the solar system
December 2009 |
By Robert Irion
Events: A National Zoo Electric Light Show, Holidays on Display, Celebrations of Winter Holidays
Monday, November 30: Sorry kids, no special events today. But be sure to check this Web site for a listing of regularly scheduled Smithsonian fun.Tuesday, December 1: Seasons of LightFor an all-inclusive seasonal celebration, check out "Seasons of Light." Performed annually for the past ten years, ...
November 30, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events for the Week of 11/23-27: Dig It!, Space Exploration, American Food, and the Freer's Annual Attic Sale!
Monday, November 23: Sorry kids, no special events today. But be sure to check this website for a listing of regularly scheduled Smithsonian fun.Tuesday, November 24: Dig It! ActivitiesExperience the Natural History Museum’s Dig It! exhibition a la carte! As you tour the show, keep an eye out for v...
November 23, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Moving Beyond Earth Opens at Air and Space
This week, the National Air and Space Museum unveiled the first phase of its new permanent exhibit about human spaceflight, "Moving Beyond Earth."The gallery focuses on the shuttle and space-station era and includes items that were just recently doing their jobs in space, like the Hubble's Correcti...
November 20, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Events for the Week of 11/16-20: Free Movie Admission for Cell Phones, Stargazing, New Deal Artists and the Films of John Ford
Monday, November 16: Free Admission to Wild Ocean 3D for Recycled Cell PhonesDo the environment a favor and part with your old cell phone in an ecologically friendly way—and catch a movie in return. From now until November 22, visitors who present a cell phone for recycling at the theater's box off...
November 16, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: Celebrate American Indian Heritage, Astronaut Art, and Sesame Street's 40th Birthday!
Friday, November 13: Vice Adm. Donald D. Engen Flight Jacket Night: A Conversation with Alan BeanOn November 19th, 1969, Alan Bean became the fourth man to set foot on the Moon during the second lunar landing as the Apollo 12 lunar module pilot. After a distinguished career at NASA, he retired in 1...
November 13, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events for the Week of 11/9-13: Africa Meets Mexico, Home School Open House, Confederate Currency and More!
Monday, November 9: Curator's Talk with Cesáreo MorenoThe Anacostia Museum is pleased to host the newly-opened exhibition The African Presence in México, which looks at the history, culture and Art of Afr0-Mexicans from the colonial era up to the present day. The show's curator, Cesáreo Moreno, wil...
November 09, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Events for the Week of October 26-30: Halloween, Judy Garland, Architectural Tours and More!
Sorry kids, no special events happening at the Smithsonian today. But be sure to check out this site for a listing of regularly-scheduled happenings around the Institution.Tuesday, October 27: American Art Museum Architectural TourThey don't build 'em like they used to—which is why touring building...
October 26, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Weekend Events: Celebrate Halloween at the Zoo and Air and Space Museum, Learn about FDR and Stamps
Friday, October 23: Boo at the ZooPerfect for persons ages two to 12, Boo at the Zoo provides families with a safe, fun and educational way to celebrate the Halloween holiday. Dress up and step on out to haunt the National Zoo where there will be 40 treat stations featuring an assortment of candy a...
October 23, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Amelia Earhart Soars at the Movies and the Smithsonian
Amelia Earhart's mystique has captured imaginations for generations and the story of this groundbreaking aviator who disappeared during a 1937 flight around the world still holds some serious pop culture clout. Her life has been memorialized in literature and song—with offerings from everyone from ...
October 23, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Pilot Patty Wagstaff To Speak at Air and Space
Patty Wagstaff is a acrobatic air show performer and was the first woman to win the title of US National Aerobatic Champion. For the past eight years, she has helped train pilots in the Kenya Wildlife Service. Wagstaff joins CNN correspondent Miles O'Brien, who documented her in Africa, tonight fo...
October 21, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Air and Space Digitizes Flight Posters
Of the more than 1,300 posters in the National Air and Space Museum's collection, Dom Pisano, curator in the Aeronautics Division, prefers one from 1952: a brightly colored poster depicting TWA's Super Lockheed Constellation (at left). "It shows the typical airliner of the post war era. Later on, a...
October 20, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Weekday Events: Book Signing, Panamanian Music, Pinball, and Artist Brian Jungen
Monday, October 12: Book SigningRobert F. Door will be available to autograph his book Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Free. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 12:00-5:00 PM.Tuesday, October 13: Celebramos Panama: A Musical ExtravaganzaCelebrate Hispan...
October 12, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
First Edition of Galileo Book on Display
At the opening of the new public observatory at the National Air and Space Museum last week, the 17th century astronomer, Galileo, made a surprise appearance. Carrying his telescope, he emerged from the throngs of press and museum staffers shouting "Scusi, scusi." Galileo then leapt up onto the sm...
October 08, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
The Wright Experience
Take a step back in time and spend an evening on the wings of Orville and Wilbur Wright tomorrow night at the National Air and Space Museum. October 8, 1909 marked the moment when the Wright brothers began the first training of American military pilots in College Park, Maryland. In honor of this ce...
October 06, 2009 |
By Audrey Reinhardt
Smithsonian Events for the Week of 10/5-9: John Lennon, the Wright Brothers, Astaire and Rogers and More!
Monday, October 5:Sorry kids, no special events happening at the Smithsonian today. But be sure to check out this site for a listing of regularly-scheduled happenings around the Institution.Tuesday, October 6: Africa to America to Paris: The Migration of Black WritersCome watch the film Africa to A...
October 05, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
