Smithsonian Voices

From the Smithsonian Museums

Sara Cognuck (center) shows the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action.

Conservation Commons

Nature & Nurture: How Costa Rica's Environmentalism Shaped Sara Cognuck Into a Climate Leader

This glass tube, part of the museum’s collection, once contained a sample of helium. Its paper label reads, “HELIUM / SIR W. RAMSAY, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S. / THOMAS TRYER & CO., Ltd. / STRATFORD, LONDON, ENGLAND.”

National Museum of American History

The History of Holding Helium

Jenova Chen, Kellee Santiago, Flower, 2007, video game for SONY PS3, color, sound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of thatgamecompany, 2013.70, © 2008 Sony Computer Entertainment American LLC. Flower is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC. Developed by thatgamecompany.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Building Community Through Video Games

From the surface, the havoc caused on a coral reef by a layer of low-oxygen water was barely evident.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Watch What Happens When A Coral Reef Can't Get Enough Oxygen

Preparing klulik from Sasoun at Noosh. (Photo by Areg Vardanyan, My Armenia Program)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

Eat Like an Armenian with These Tips from a Local Guide

The first page of the Hungerford Deed, 1787, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 19-150. (Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

The Property Contract that Sheds New Light on James Smithson's Gift to the Smithsonian

Angel Rodríguez-Díaz, The Protagonist of an Endless Story, 1993, oil on canvas, 72 x 57 7/8 in. (182.9 x 147.0 cm.), Museum purchase made possible in part by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1996.19, © 1993, Angel Rodriguez-Diaz.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Exhibition Showcases How Artists Challenge Mythic Conceptions of the American West

Bald eagles are native to the United States, but caring for them is a unique and rare opportunity. Every bald eagle in human care, including Annie pictured here, is a rescue.

National Zoo

Meet Rescued Bald Eagles Tioga and Annie

Carolyn Smith collecting beargrass in Klamath National Forest, 2015. For beargrass to be supple enough for weavers to use in their baskets, it needs to be burned annually. Ideally, it is burned in an intentionally set cultural fire, where only the tops are burned, leaving the roots intact. Prescribed fires in the Klamath National Forest are few and far between, so weavers “follow the smoke” and gather, when they can, after wildfires sweep through the landscape. (Photo courtesy of Carolyn Smith)

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage

How Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Offers Solutions to California’s Wildfires

Heather Stewart, former PhD fellow at STRI, is very involved in local and global initiatives related to the conservation of coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean, such as mangrove forests.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Caribbean Mangrove Forests May Serve as Coral Shelters