Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk, Minimal Art; San Francisco 1955-1968. Cologne, Germany: Museum Ludwig, 2008. This catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne focuses more »
Category: Collection Highlights
Today is Bald Eagle Day.—Elizabeth Periale William L. Bailey, Our own birds; or a familiar natural history of the birds of the United States, 1863, "Bald eagle, Engraving of the more »
Above: The beauty of Botanica Magnifica was on display during the event Below: Guests enjoy a rare opportunity to view an Audubon On June 10, around 70 guests gathered for more »
To celebrate the current Smithsonian Libraries exhibition Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration, Helena Wright, Curator of Graphic Arts at the National Museum of American History, will present “Book more »
The Art work of Louis C. Tiffany., 1914, "Rose window."
Royal Zoological Society of Ireland. Guide to the Zoological Gardens, Phoenix Park. "The Elephant takes visitors round the Gardens at a charge of 2d. on Week-days, and 1d. on Sundays." more »
H. Wright Smith, "Benjamin Franklin." June 15 is traditionally considered the date of Benjamin Franklin's experiment with a kite to prove that lightning was electrical in nature. The Libraries has more »