Smithsonian Voices

From the Smithsonian Museums

Jun Wen sits at a wooden table in front of a bookshelf examining a herbarium booklet of pressed plant specimens.

National Museum of Natural History

Meet the Scientist Who Maps the World’s Past and Present Plants

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Smithsonian Education

How Art Can Foster Social-Emotional Awareness for Our Students (and Ourselves)

Peter Cooper and Family, unidentified daguerreotypist, three-quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied color, c. 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

National Portrait Gallery

“Family Ties: Daguerreotype Portraits” and “Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples”

A pink and yellow worm is covered in several tangled strands of string-like gills.

National Museum of Natural History

Meet the Scientist Who Studies How Polychaete Worms Wriggle Through the Ocean

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Earth Optimism

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection | Earth Optimism Book of the Month

Grayscale image of Emanuel Martínez in a dark colored shirt and apron and light coloroed pants pondering a wall mural with two large faces.

Archives of American Art

New Collections: Emanuel Martínez Papers

DACA monarch butterfly sign

Smithsonian Latino Center

Girlhood in Latina/o/x Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Pollard swimming near the Placencia Producers Cooperative farm where she sources her seaweed. Photo by Nick Perry, Coastline Studios

Earth Optimism

Sustaining a Green Business

A butterfly on a cluster of small flowers

National Zoo

8 Reasons to 'Bee' in Awe of Pollinators

Corals as far as the eye can see, with dark blue fishes swimming above

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

U.S. Needs to Diversify Marine Protected Areas to Reap Full Benefits

Black and white photograph of a girls posing for a first communion picture. A dropdown background image of a man with a halo around his head. A photographer stands with a camera in front of the girl.

Smithsonian Latino Center

Picturing Catholic Girlhood: Religion, Portrait Photography, and Building Latina/o/x Collections

A flower with bright pink petals and a yellow interior blooms on the surface of a water near several green and brown lily pads.

National Museum of Natural History

New Smithsonian Exhibition Explores the Intersection of People and Nature

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Earth Optimism

Seaweed Offers Solutions for Humans, Habitats, and Hair in Belize

Image is black and white showing a man in a suit standing in front of a river

Smithsonian Associates

60 Years of Bond, James Bond and More Programs in July

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National Museum of American History

Reflecting on the Ten Year Anniversary of DACA

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Smithsonian Associates

Kids Can Experience Nighttime Adventures at the Smithsonian This Summer

The inside of a lumpy white and brown seashell is smooth and pink.

National Museum of Natural History

The Story Behind the Seashells By the Seashore

Septima Poinsette Clark by Brian Lanker, gelatin silver print, 1987. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Partial gift of Lynda Lanker, and museum purchase with the support of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Agnes Gund, Kate Kelly and George Schweitzer, Lyndon J. Barrois and Janine Sherman Barrois, and Mark and Cindy Aron. Copyright Brian Lanker Archive.

National Portrait Gallery

“I Dream a World: Selections From Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women”

On the left, a woman with long wavy dark hair and patterned blue blouse sings into a microphone, seated, eyes closed. On the right, another person sits behind a long barrel-shaped drum, holding a hand drum, looking down.

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

Warming to Tradition: The Culture of Vocal Exercise

Teacher Kurt Russell sits at a square table in the school's library with five students, smiling and in conversation.

Smithsonian Education

In Conversation with 2022 National Teacher of the Year, Kurt Russell