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Nancy Wilson signs the deed of gift, donating two of her gowns to the American History Museum, alongside museum director Brent Glass, at the Music Center at Strathmore.

Style and Song Maven Nancy Wilson Donates Gowns to the American History Museum

Wilson’s dresses join the museum’s collection of famed ensembles, including gowns from: the First Ladies, Ella Fitzgerald, Beverly Sills and the Supremes

Celebrate Hawai'i Festival is at the American Indian museum.

Weekend Events May 20-22 Celebrate Hawai’i, Very Special Arts, Renwick Craft Invitational

Events for the weekend of May 20-22 include a celebration of Hawaiian culture and the Renwick Craft Invitational

Mount St. Helens

The List: Five Volcanoes to Watch

On the anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, the ATM blog team, has compiled a list of five volcanoes that currently threaten population centers

Still from Laurent Grasso's Polair, 2007

Laurent Grasso’s Own Reality at Hirshhorn’s Black Box

Portrait of global philanthropic team Bill and Melinda Gates by Jon Friedman, 2011

See Bill and Melinda Gates at the Portrait Gallery

Evalyn McLean (c. 1914) wearing the Hope Diamond

Don’t You Wish You Could Wear the Hope Diamond?

How did such a huge rock come to be in the possession of such a party girl like Evalyn McLean

ILL-abilities crew

Events for the Week of 5/16-5/21: Zoo Feedings, ILL-Abilities Crew, Celebrate Hawai’i

Events for the week of 5/16/11 - 5/21/11

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What Is It Like to View a Space Shuttle Launch?

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A New App Called Leafsnap

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Weekend events May 13 - May 15: Cosmic Collisions, “Metropolis” With Music, Stripmall Ballads

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What Does it Mean to be “Museum-Worthy?” How a Political History Curator Defines the Term

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The List- Five Must-See Butterfly Spots Around the Mall

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Face to Face With a Garbage Patch at Sea

Andrew Young

At the Portrait Gallery: The Civil Rights Legend Ambassador Andrew Young

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This Thursday Make it a Movie Night at the Film Forward Festival

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The Simpsons Break Into the Smithsonian

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Events for May 9-May 13: Harry Potter, Cultural Dialogue, “Cosmic Collisions”

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Weekend Events: Asian Pacific American Heritage, Garden Fest, Mother’s Day

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It’s Time to Garden at the Smithsonian

Astronaut Alan Shepard in his pressure suit, for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) flight, the first American manned space flight. On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 mission and became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Went to Outer Space and Came Home

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first American in space

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