Articles tagged as Cultural Preservation

Asli Saghatelyan stands next to her father-in-law’s 240-gallon karas, a clay vessel traditionally used in Armenia, until recently, for storing and fermenting homemade wine.

Armenia: Smithsonian Guide

Unearthing Armenia’s Giant, Ancient Earthenware

These 240-gallon clay karases, crucial to the early development of winemaking, once held enormous value

February 14, 2017

A bicyclist rides by the destroyed old mosque and tomb of Nabi Jerjis, also known as Saint George, in central Mosul in July 2014.

Commentary

Why We Need to Fight to Save Mosul’s Cultural Heritage

As the battle to save Iraq from ISIS continues, Smithsonian experts are helping local people preserve their history

February 9, 2017

Atlas of Eating

Chef Margarita Carrillo Arronte on Why Mexican Cuisine Is a UNESCO Treasure

Meet the woman dedicated to preserving traditional Mexican cuisine

February 8, 2017

The National Mall finally recovered from President Obama’s first inauguration, and rangers want to keep it that way

Updated: January 26, 2017 | Originally Published: January 19, 2017

Central High School, where school integration battles of the Civil Rights Movement played out, is among 39 sites and historical projects to get National Park Service grants.

A $7.5 million grant program will fund 39 projects in over 20 states

January 19, 2017

Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng on honeymoon in Europe

The Couple Who Saved China’s Ancient Architectural Treasures Before They Were Lost Forever

As the nation teetered on the brink of war in the 1930s, two Western-educated thinkers struck out for the hinterlands to save their country’s riches

January 2017

Cool Finds

One of the World’s Largest Dada Collections Can Now Be Viewed Online

The freewheeling art movement didn’t lend itself to posterity

January 3, 2017

Trending Today

The Year in National Parks

From people stealing baby bison and Yosemite trademarks to epic blooms in Death Valley, 2016 has been an eventful centennial year for the NPS

December 30, 2016

In Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, America's most beloved native insect faces threats from illegal loggers and avocado growers.

New Research

The Best Way to Protect the World’s Forests? Keep People in Them

Instead of kicking indigenous groups out, let them continue to manage these lands effectively, argues a new report

December 28, 2016

Now more of the Princeton Battlefield, where Washington and his troops scored a pivotal victory, will be preserved.

Most of the Princeton battlefield where Washington’s troops fought will be saved from development

December 13, 2016

Much of Belgium's beer is made by Trappist monks.

The move celebrates the tiny country’s huge love of suds

December 2, 2016

The factory Oskar Schindler used to shelter over 1,000 Jews during World War II will finally become a Holocaust memorial.

Long abandoned, the dilapidated factory is where the industrialist put over 1,200 threatened Jews to work during World War II

November 10, 2016

An artist's rendering of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope atop the Hawaiian volcano Mauna Kea.

This alternate fate could help smooth tensions over the embattled instrument

November 2, 2016

Armenia

A Taste of the Wild Side: Finding Local Flavor in Armenia’s Edible Highlands

October 27, 2016

Ray Bolger's widow, Gwendolyn, donated the costume to the Smithsonian Institution after the comedian's death in 1987.

Smithsonian Will Stretch to Save Scarecrow’s Costume, Too

Turns out the Ruby Slippers were just the beginning of an epic journey of cultural preservation

October 24, 2016

The Great Hall of the People in Beijing is now on a 20th-century cultural preservation list in China.

A country with an uneasy relationship to its past will preserve 98 buildings of the 20th century for future generations

October 17, 2016

Clyde R. Meyers, Denham Springs flood survivor, holds a photograph of his parents, saturated with floodwater from the 2016 historic flooding in Louisiana.

It isn’t easy to save cultural heritage from the ravages of nature, but a national task force thinks it’s worth trying

October 7, 2016

Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Cuba

What to Read, Watch and Download Before Your Trip to Cuba

Know before you go

October 6, 2016

And for good reason

October 3, 2016

The Cultural Expressions exhibition celebrates the everyday.

Breaking Ground

How Did Smithsonian Curators Pack 200 Years of African-American Culture in One Exhibition?

The curators of the Cultural Expressions exhibition collected stories and artifacts and brilliantly packed 200 years into one round room

September 30, 2016