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                    -                 Search Press Releases          SearchReset-  Exhibition at Cooper Hewitt to Celebrate Recent Acquisitions to the Collection"Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection" On View March 16 Through Sept. 2, 2024  02.27.2024Cooper HewittExhibitions 
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Embossed gold jar (detail), Ōnuma Chihiro (b. 1950), Japan, Shōwa era, 1988, hammered copper with amalgam gilding (kinkeshi), National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Bequest of Shirley Z. Johnson, S2022.8.37a–c Copyright Ōnuma Chihiro.
National Museum of Asian Art Announces Its Newly Acquired Shirley Z. Johnson Collection of Contemporary Japanese MetalworkObjects From This Unprecedented Gift Will Be on View in the Upcoming Exhibition “Striking Objects: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork”  02.26.2024ExhibitionsNew Acquisitions 
-  Smithsonian Names Four Additional Members to the Smithsonian American Women History Museum’s Advisory Council  02.22.2024American Women's History MuseumAdministrative News 
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Left: John Singer Sargent, “Mrs. Kate A. Moore,” 1884. Oil on canvas; 71 5/8 x 45 3/4 in. (181.9 x 116.2 cm). Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972 (72.257). Photo: Lee Stalsworth.

Right: Amoako Boafo, “Cobalt Blue Dress,” 2020. Oil on canvas; 78 3/8 x 60 1/2 in. (199.1 x 153.7 cm). Gift of Sandra and Howard Hoffen, 2022 (2022.016). Photo: Rob Blunt.
“Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960” Inaugurates the 50th Anniversary of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenExhibition of 270 Artworks Charts the Development of the National Collection  02.21.2024Hirshhorn MuseumExhibitions 
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Arcadia, California. Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly center from San Pedro, California. Evacuees lived at this center located at the former Santa Anita racetrack before being moved inland to relocation centers, April 5, 1942.

National Archives and Records Administration.
Smithsonian Hosts Annual Day of Remembrance Program“Memory and the Nation” Program Will Feature a Panel Discussion  02.13.2024Asian Pacific American CenterAmerican History MuseumPublic Programs 
-  Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Has Announced Its Committee of Scholars  02.13.2024American Women's History MuseumAdministrative News 
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The public is invited to help name two cotton-top tamarin sisters at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. *Image*: Chelia Chong, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Public Can Help Name Cotton-Top Tamarins at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute  02.05.2024National ZooPublic Programs 
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*Abiding Nowhere* still in the National Museum of Asian Art’s courtyard; photo by Claude Wang.
National Museum of Asian Art Announces Premiere of Centennial-Commissioned Film “Abiding Nowhere” by Taiwan-Based Director Tsai Ming-liangThe Film—Which Will Have Its World Premiere at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival—Is Inspired by Xuanzang, the Seventh-Century Monk Who Walked From China to India  02.01.2024Asian Art Museum 
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Clark Gable and Joan Crawford by George Hurrell, gelatin silver print, 1936. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired in part through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
National Portrait Gallery Presents “Star Power: Photographs From Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell”On View March 1–Jan. 5, 2025  02.01.2024Portrait GalleryExhibitions 
-  Debra Rosenberg Named Smithsonian Magazine Executive Editor  02.01.2024Smithsonian MagazineAdministrative News 
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Still from *Frybread Face and Me*. Photo courtesy of AARAY Releasing.
Smithsonian Presents the Mother Tongue Film Festival, “Finding Balance”Smithsonian Presents the Mother Tongue Film Festival, “Finding Balance”  01.31.2024Center for Folklife and Cultural HeritagePublic Programs 
-  National Museum of American History Receives Gift From Americana Corner To Support Gunboat Philadelphia PreservationRevolutionary War-Era Artifact at Center of Museum’s Celebration of the Nation’s 250th Anniversary  01.31.2024American History Museum 
-  National Museum of American History Receives Save America’s Treasures GrantFunding Will Preserve the Revolutionary War-Era Gunboat Philadelphia  01.31.2024American History Museum 
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White-naped crane Walnut and her keeper, Chris Crowe, in 2021. *Credit*: Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
White-Naped Crane Dies at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute  01.31.2024National Zoo 
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World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation Gallery Rendering. Smithsonian Institution.
National Air and Space Museum Provides Update on Renovation ProjectMuseum Shares Names and Renderings of Final 12 Galleries To Open  01.30.2024Air and Space MuseumExhibitions 
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"Sewing a fine seam—finishing touches are applied to one section of the new spacesuit for NASA's Apollo lunar missions on this long-arm sewing machine, built specially for manufacturing the spacesuits." Hazel Fellows, seated, machine-sewing pieces of an Apollo A7L spacesuit on the production line at International Latex Corporation (ILC), Federica (Dover), Delaware; released Aug. 9, 1968. Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Celebrates Women’s History Month 2024 With Inaugural Digital Exhibition and New Initiatives  01.30.2024American Women's History MuseumExhibitionsPublic Programs 
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Judith Schaechter, “The Life Ecstatic”Stained Glass Lightbox, 31 x 29 x 4 inches / 79 x 74 x 10 cm*Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery.*
Smithsonian Visionary Award Honors Glass Artists Dan Dailey and Judith Schaechter  01.26.2024 
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Possible Epicenters of Moonquake.NASA/LRO/LROC/Smithsonian Institution
Shrinking Moon Causes Temblors and Faults in the Lunar South Polar RegionNew Paper Published by Smithsonian Scientist Emeritus Tom Watters  01.25.2024Air and Space MuseumResearch News 
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Perspective view of Lucus Planum part of the Medusae Fossae Formation, a series of thick deposits found along the highland-lowland dichotomy boundary on Mars. The deposit shown here in this false color, Context Camera (CTX) mosaic, is several kilometers thick.

*Credit: Caltech/JPL Global CTX Mosaic of Mars/Smithsonian Institution.*
New Study Reveals Evidence of an Ice-Rich Layered Deposit on MarsNew Paper Published by Smithsonian Scientist Tom Watters  01.18.2024Air and Space MuseumResearch News 
-  National Museum of African American History and Culture Presents “gOD-Talk: Reimagining Faith in the 21st Century” Film TourInternational Screening Tour Explores Religion and  Spirituality in Young African Americans  01.17.2024African American MuseumPublic Programs 
-  “From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson” Extended to Jan. 6, 2025, at National Museum of African Art  01.16.2024African Art MuseumExhibitions 
-  Smithsonian Curators To Collect 2024 Presidential Campaign Memorabilia  01.12.2024American History Museum 
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“But I’m Still Fly” by Fahamu Pecou. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, copyright Fahamu Pecou.
National Museum of African American History and Culture Celebrates Black History Month“African Americans and the Arts” Is the Theme for the  Museum’s Online and In-person Offerings  01.12.2024African American MuseumPublic Programs 
-  Smithsonian Summer Camp Offers Kids Opportunities To Engage With the Smithsonian’s Museums  01.11.2024Smithsonian AssociatesPublic Programs 
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A crowd watching a lion dancer perform outside the museum during the 2023 Lunar New Year Festival.Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.

 
National Museum of Asian Art Announces Its 2024 Lunar New Year Family Festival  01.11.2024Asian Art MuseumPublic Programs 
-  Smithsonian Gardens To Present 28th Annual Orchid ExhibitionInstallation Includes Commissioned Works by Artist  Phaan Howng and Explores Conservation Efforts  01.10.2024Smithsonian GardensExhibitionsPublic Programs 
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*Hylomys peguensis* photographed in Wang Nam Khiao District, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

Credit: Charoenchai Tothaisong, CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED.
Smithsonian-led Study Reveals Five New Species of Soft-Furred Hedgehogs From Southeast AsiaDNA Analysis of Museum Specimens Brought the New Hedgehogs to Light  12.21.2023Natural History MuseumResearch News 
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Pinback button memorial depicting Martin Luther King Jr. ca. 1968. Credit: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Peggy Boyd Petrey.
National Museum of African American History and Culture Kicks Off January 2024 with Dynamic Programming  12.19.2023African American MuseumPublic Programs 
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