Because of their size, miniature books present special challenges for shelving, preservation, and exhibition, but this fact only adds to their appeal as curiosities and collectibles.
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The DC Water Authority is currently fixing a main water line on Constitution Avenue, which has caused a closing of the road. You can still get into the National Museum of Natural History on that side of the building if you can finagle your way around the construction.
Originally published on the Smithsonian Collections blog … Pictured here is John Murdoch, a former head librarian of the Smithsonian, in the United States National Museum library, located in the more »
Readers of all ages can delight in the wonderful arrangement of pop-ups, a few of which are featured in the Libraries’ exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn.
Today, August 19, is National Aviation Day, as well as being Orville Wright’s birthday. He was born in 1871. The Libraries has many titles in its collections centering on Orville and his brother . . . Happy birthday, Orville!
Twenty students and two instructors from the Catholic University of America‘s (CUA) School of Library and Information Museum Libraries Institute were hosted by the Smithsonian's two libraries in Suitland, Md. more »
On August 10, 1846, Congress passed an act establishing the Smithsonian Institution, named in honor of James Smithson, a British mineralogist and chemist who unexpectedly bequeathed a fortune to the United States government for “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”