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What’s Up

Body language, new stripes and prime real estate

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What’s Up

The Tao of Tea, Beyond Pottery and Something in the Air

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What’s Up

Orchids, Ice Floes and Kids with Cameras

The Smithsonian Castle

Field Trip!

Education experts help children, their teachers, parents and grandparents get the most out of a museum visit - real or virtual

Ben Franklin's "ditto" suit helped convey American values to the French

Dressed-Down Democracy

Franklin’s 300th birthday this month reminds us of common ideals and artifacts that reflect them—from a simple suit to an iconic lunch counter

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Innovators of Our Time

We mark Smithsonian’s 35th anniversary by revisiting scientists, artists and scholars who’ve enriched the magazine and our lives

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One of a Kind

From the beginning, Smithsonian has looked beyond the Institution

The Outwin Boochever contest: First of its kind in the U.S.

New Faces

Artists, emerging and renowned alike, will vie to display their works in the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens next July

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The Price of Ambition

From the beginning, the cost of increasing and diffusing knowledge exceeded even Smithson’s generosity

An SIguide: More memory than the Apollo 11 computer—at 1/250th its size.

From the Secretary: Guiding Light

New palm-size computers show videos and maps to lead visitors around— even to a good cup of joe

July 1970

A look back at the world in Smithsonian Magazine’s first year

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Reversing the Clock

Taking care of the nation’s treasures requires art, history and even molecular science

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Science Matters

The Institution decides to focus on four basic questions

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Invention at Play

The Lemelson Center celebrates a decade of nurturing the inventor in each of us

Kicking off the Festival, NASA Deputy Administrator, the Honorable Shana Dale, shares lunch with the Prince of Bhutan, HRH Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck, and the acting head of the Smithsonian Institution, Cristian Samper.

Child of Wonder

Cristián Samper’s lifelong love of flora and fauna inspires creative new displays of the world’s largest collection

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Turrets and Towers

The fanciful design of the Smithsonian Castle—150 years old in December—bucked the neo-classical trend of Washington’s other monuments and buildings

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New Digs

Introducing a new department and the editor who runs it

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Great Finds

Celebrating a magazine’s good fortune—and a nation’s

The Secretary with a few "collaborators."

A Task for Every Talent

Since the Smithsonian’s earliest days, the help of volunteers has been essential

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Will Power

Estate bequests by donors past and present keep the world’s largest museum and research complex humming

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