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When dinosaurs roamed the land, giant reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs ruled the seas. These fierce sea monsters ...
10/16/2026

When dinosaurs roamed the land, giant reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs ruled the seas. These fierce sea monsters were some of the largest predators to ever live. They’re now long gone from our oceans, but fossils and rocks hold clues to how they lived. Our traveling exhibition “Sea Monsters Unearthed” explores this prehistoric period and showcases never-before-seen fossils from excavations sites in Angola that fill in a missing chapter in Earth’s history. You can see it now at Flint Hills Discovery Center!

📷: Courtesy Mayborn Museum Complex

10/15/2026

Okeechobee Main Street and Okeechobee Historical Society will host the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, “Americans”

Lowriding is a vibrant and living tradition! Here, Sonia, Winnonah, and Kim show off chola style San Francisco, Californ...
10/14/2026

Lowriding is a vibrant and living tradition! Here, Sonia, Winnonah, and Kim show off chola style San Francisco, California, 2020.

Started by Mexican American communities in the 1940s to assert their space and empower their lives, this unique car-making tradition is infused with Latino/a soul, entrepreneurship, and ingenuity. A mix of innovation and tradition, lowriding is an affirmation of identity and values that have reached beyond the United States to influence popular culture worldwide.

Our traveling exhibiiton "Lowrider Culture in the United States / Cultura Lowrider en los Estados Unidos" highlights a diverse selection of vibrant photographs and prints depicting lowrider culture and iconography while documenting its styles in the United States.

See it now at our Smithsonian Affiliate, the International Museum of Art & Science.



📷: Photo by Amanda López

Taíno peoples developed religious traditions around powerful beings called cemís. Cemís inhabit many forms and materials...
10/12/2026

Taíno peoples developed religious traditions around powerful beings called cemís. Cemís inhabit many forms and materials, including stone, wood, or cotton. They connect Taíno to their ancestors, to ancient beings, and to natural forces like rain.

Our “Caribbean Indigenous Resistance ¡Taino Vive!” exhibition explores Caribbean Indigenous survival journey through stories, contemporary crafts, musical instruments, and utilitarian objects. It also examines the history of these Spanish and English-speaking islands, and the impact and legacy of Caribbean Indigenous knowledge throughout the world. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/3WZz7ig



Image: Taíno (Chican Ostionoid) cemí carved to represent a human head, AD 800–1500, San Pedro de Macorís Province, Dominican Republic.

Purchased in 1941 from A.E. Todd. National Museum of the American Indian, 20/3511

We remember pioneering Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Margaret Hamilton. MIT played a critical...
10/08/2026

We remember pioneering Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Margaret Hamilton. MIT played a critical role in the development of the flight software for NASA’s Apollo program, which landed humans on the Moon for the first time in 1969. Hamilton led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory to develop the Apollo program’s guidance system. Ensuring that the programs had no errors required an enormous amount of paper documentation.

Margaret Hamilton was featured in our “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission” exhibition, which toured the country from 2017 through 2020. She will also be featured in an upcoming exhibition for travel called “Women in Space.” 🚀🌒



Image: Courtesy of National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Hello from the 2026 Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) Conference at Rutgers University—New Brunswick! 😎If you’r...
10/08/2026

Hello from the 2026 Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) Conference at Rutgers University—New Brunswick! 😎

If you’re attending the conference and would like to learn more about the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibitions we’d love to see you!

10/07/2026

On Sunday, October 18 don’t miss Smithsonian Institution’s Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large Richard Kurin discussing his new book, “History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery.”

“History by a Hair,” recently featured in the The New York Times, is the definitive account of how a discarded strand of hair found in Thomas Jefferson’s Bible at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History led to a sweeping, multi-year genomic investigation, drawing on technological advances in DNA to finally resolve a 200-year national controversy.

Free program starts at 3 pm. Signing to follow with copies for sale from Scuppernong Books.

Let us know you are attending at https://buff.ly/X6fUrAr

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Native Americans have served in the US military, often in extraordinary numbers, since the American Revolution. Here, Be...
10/06/2026

Native Americans have served in the US military, often in extraordinary numbers, since the American Revolution. Here, Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne) shares a laugh with a young South Korean man during his service in the United States Air Force in the Korean War.

Explore the stories of Native American veterans in our “Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces” exhibition, developed in partnership with our colleagues at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. You can see it now at the Native American Studies Center.

“Why We Serve” honors the Native Americans who have served in the U.S. military, often in extraordinary numbers, since the American Revolution. The exhibition asks, “Why would Indians serve a country that overran their homelands, suppressed their cultures, and confined them to reservations?” What is revealed is that Native people have served for many of the same reasons as others: to demonstrate patriotism, pursue employment, education, or adventure. Yet tribal warrior traditions, treaty commitments, and responsibility for defending Native homelands have also inspired military service.

📷: Photo courtesy of Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell

This weekend will be the last weekend to see Caribbean Indigenous Resistance / Resistencia indígena del Caribe: ¡Taíno V...
10/01/2026

This weekend will be the last weekend to see Caribbean Indigenous Resistance / Resistencia indígena del Caribe: ¡Taíno Vive! at The MATT!

Through October 4, explore this bilingual exhibition celebrating Taíno history, culture, resilience, and contemporary Indigenous identity across the Caribbean.

Don’t miss your final chance to experience the exhibition at Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT this weekend!

Caribbean Indigenous Resistance / Resistencia indígena del Caribe ¡Taíno Vive! is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of the American Latino.

This exhibition received federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino.

The exhibition is co-presented by the Mattatuck Museum and the Afro Caribbean Cultural Center. The Mattatuck thanks the Yale Peabody Museum and cultural consultants Stephanie Bailey (Indigenous Caribbean descent from Boriken) and Sanakori (Taíno from Boriken) for lending additional expertise and objects to our presentation.

🎶 ”All my friends know the low rider...” – “Low Rider,” by War 1975Lowriders are custom-built cars featuring hydraulics:...
10/01/2026

🎶 ”All my friends know the low rider...” – “Low Rider,” by War 1975

Lowriders are custom-built cars featuring hydraulics: They are low to the ground and can be raised with the flip of a switch. But lowriding is more than just the mechanics of building and painting a car—it’s also a way of life and the expression of a vibrant community! It is a celebration of joy, pride, family, and respect.

Our bilingual exhibition “Lowrider Culture in the United States / Cultura lowrider en los Estados Unidos,” explores this quintessential Latino/a tradition started by Mexican American communities in the 1940s.

Through vibrant photographs, this exhibition takes visitors on a scenic ride exploring lowrider culture and iconography while documenting its styles in the United States.

Cruise into the International Museum of Art & Science now to experience it!



📷: Courtesy Jose Galvez

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