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#                 Our Star: Our Sun      

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Smithsonian collections offer prismatic ways of understanding our relationship to—and dependence on—the sun from art to astronomy to solar energy. The fifth Smithsonian Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot kept a solar laboratory behind the Castle building. His research at the Smithsonian and around the world included solar effects on weather patterns and plants, as well as the sun as a power source, well ahead of his time. Abbot began his 78-year career at the Smithsonian in 1895 with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, now partnered with Harvard University.
  -          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Solar Wall 
-          Smithsonian Archives - History Div        Secretary Charles G. Abbot Reading the Pyrheliometer 
-          National Museum of the American Indian        Summer Solstice 2016 
-          Smithsonian Archives - History Div        Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, South Yard 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Carroza Solar 
-          National Museum of American History        1876 Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" Quilt 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Little Sun Solar Powered Lamp 
-          National Museum of American History        Spectraltafel nach der Originalzeichnung von G. Kirchoff und R. Bunsen 
-          National Museum of the American Indian        Summer Solstice 
-          National Air and Space Museum        So What Exactly Is a Solstice? 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Patan, from the "Solstice Series" 
-          National Museum of American History        Quadrant, a Form of Sundial 
-          National Museum of African Art        *Untitled* 
-          National Zoo        This is Summer Solstice: Prairie Dog Stonehenge Enrichment 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Snoopy--Early Sun Display on Earth 
-          National Museum of the American Indian        Ear ornament with sun image 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        The Sun, from The Seven Planets 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        Sun 
-          National Museum of American History        Tom Law watching drummers at the first summer solstice celebration 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Rising Sun 
-          National Museum of the American Indian        Dawa (Sun) kachina 
-          Smithsonian Archives - History Div        Preparations for Solar Broadcast 
-          National Museum of African Art        *Beyond the Hills at Sundown* 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Switch to Solar 
-          Smithsonian American Art Museum        The Eclipse 
-          National Museum of American History        Environmental Button 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Ascending Suns 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Highlights from Solar Wall 
-          National Museum of the American Indian        The Maya and the Sun 
-          Smithsonian Archives - History Div        Secretary Abbot with Solar Equipment 
-          National Museum of the American Indian        Origin Story of the Inka 
-          National Museum of American History        Portable Diptych Sundial by T. G. Kleininger 
-          National Museum of the American Indian        The Great Inka Road: Saqsaywaman - Engineering at the Temple of the Sun 
-          Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum        Design for Solar Energy Exhibit 
-          National Air and Space Museum        Heliostat, Solar, "Keith's American Heliostat" 
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