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Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Twelve Classic Halloween Movies Paired with Boo-tiful Artworks

From leaf-engineering to complex social circles, there’s more to bats than flying and echolocation. (Charles J Sharp)

National Museum of Natural History

Five Reasons to Love Bats

Screen capture of Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA) Overview page for the United States Women in Aviation 1940-1985 Research Materials collection in the National Air and Space Museum Archives.

National Air and Space Museum

So What’s Up with the SOVA? Accessing Digital Air and Space Collections on the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives

A low-lying topographic depression known as Margaritifer basin. (Sharon A. Wilson, John A. Grant, and Kevin K. Williams (2020), Geologic Map of Morava Valles and Margaritifer basin, Mars, MTM Quadrangles -10022 and -15022, 1:500,000 scale, USGS Scientific Investigations Map, in press.)

National Air and Space Museum

Geologic Maps: Where Science Meets Art

Cole had been using fossils in the National Museum of Natural History’s Springer collections for her research long before joining the museum as a curator. (Selina Cole, Smithsonian)

National Museum of Natural History

Meet the Scientist Using Fossils to Predict Future Extinctions

Sommelier Erik Segelbaum leads a guided tasting of the perfect wines to pair with the season’s traditional foods on Nov. 20.

Smithsonian Associates

Perfect Food and Wine Pairings and 26 Other Smithsonian Programs Streaming in November

This young Hartmann's mountain zebra colt, born in July 2020, was a first for the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Our 3-month-old Zebra Colt is Earning His Stripes, One Butterfly and Biscuit at a Time

The waxing gibbous Moon as we viewed it on December 3, 2011.

National Air and Space Museum

The Moon: Before We Knew

Ottumwa, Iowa, September 5, 1964: Piccard and crew just prior to an ascent in Raven Industries Model S-50 hot air balloon.

National Air and Space Museum

Donald Louis Piccard – Pioneer of Hot Air Ballooning

Bennu is shaped like a three-dimensional diamond and seemingly smooth from far away. OSIRIS-REx is in the foreground of this artist’s replication. The spacecraft will gather a sample from Bennu next week. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

National Museum of Natural History

What an Asteroid Could Tell Us About Ancient Earth

California Natives gather in front of City Hall to celebrate Los Angeles's second annual Indigenous Peoples Day. October 14, 2019, Los Angeles, California. (Photo courtesy of Helena Tsosie)

National Museum of the American Indian

Rethinking How We Celebrate American History—Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Paul Lester Wiener and an unidentified advisor for the U.S. Pavilion murals

Office of Academic Appointments and Internships

Reversing the Erasure of Native Contributions to Muralism

The Pacific bigfin squid (Magnapinna pacifica) in the Smithsonian collections that Mike Vecchione and Richard E. Young used to describe the deepest-known species of squid. (Richard E. Young)

National Museum of Natural History

Get to Know the Scientist Discovering Deep-Sea Squids

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020, the museum brings young Native activists together online to discuss the tension between history and memory, and how both are reflected in the current racial and social landscape. Hip-hop artist Frank Waln contributes a musical performance. From left to right: Musician Frank Waln; panelists Brook Thompson, Dylan Baca, Lina Krueck, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Michaela Pavlat, and Alberto Correa III. (Photos courtesy of the participants)

National Museum of the American Indian

Five Ideas for Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020

The author lowers a net into a topside ballast water tank to sample marine plankton and zooplankton

Office of Academic Appointments and Internships

Port to Port: Ships Carry More than Just Our Cargo

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National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

The Unexpected Arrival of a Teeny, Tiny (and Critically Endangered) Spider Tortoise

A. Roy Knabenshue's father, mother, and wife seen aloft over Chicago, Illinois, in the

National Air and Space Museum

Chauffeur of the Skies: A. Roy Knabenshue’s Passenger Registries

General Douglas MacArthur making remarks at the surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri. Behind him are representatives of the major Allied powers. U.S. National Archives, Army Signal Corps Collection, USA C-2716.

National Air and Space Museum

Celebrating the End of the War

The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Surface System Test-Bed (SSTB) is nearly identical to the MER twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity that landed on Mars in 2004. Photo by Mark Avino, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM2020-00501).

National Air and Space Museum

A Mars Rover Lands in Virginia

Tattoo flash art by Owen Jensen, courtesy of the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection.

National Air and Space Museum

Body Art During World War II: From the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection

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