* 1990 – Jim Gary's " Twentieth Century Dinosaurs " exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C.

* Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's How Things Fly website

Because of its pioneering efforts, Acadia is a laureate of Washington ’ s Smithsonian Institution and a part of the permanent research collection of the National Museum of American History.

Conservation staff for both the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery are visible to the public through floor-to-ceiling glass walls that allow visitors to see firsthand all the techniques that Conservator ( museum ) | Conservators use to examine, treat and preserve artworks within a functioning conservation Laboratory.

" I don't see it as a bad thing for a park ," the assigned National Park Service biologist told a reporter for Smithsonian Magazine ( March 2006 ).

* The Invention of the Electric Guitar – Online exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History

In 2008, “ First Ladies at the Smithsonian ” opened at the National Museum of American History as part of its reopening year celebration.

* The First Ladies at the Smithsonian An online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

The original daguerreotype is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.

Chalker lectured on science fiction and technology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and numerous universities.

* Introduction to Flight, John D. Anderson, Jr., McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-299071-6 – The author is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland.

* Finding Aid to the Papers of Leonard Bloomfield, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Museums, such as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, have popular collections of mineral specimens on permanent display.

The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.

After completing her commission for the archbishop, Cassatt traveled to Madrid and Seville, where she painted a group of paintings of Spanish subjects, including Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla ( 1873, in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution ).

The Smithsonian project to build a working model of Q. northropi was the subject of the 1986 IMAX documentary On the Wing, shown at the National Air and space museum in Washington, D. C ..

The original Morse telegraph, submitted with his patent application, is part of the collections of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.

After decommissioning and delivery, the spacecraft is displayed in Virginia at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.

The Smithsonian Institution, the Anacostia Museum, and the National Park Service Network to Freedom Project have also recognized this Heritage Program.

* One Life: Thomas Paine, the Radical Founding Father exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

This flag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, came to be known as the Star Spangled Banner Flag and is today on display in the National Museum of American History, a treasure of the Smithsonian Institution.

* Vikings: The north Atlantic saga ; Searching for archeological evidence of Vikings in Labrador and Newfoundland-from The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History

Other statutorily granted roles include membership of both the National Security Council and the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

The National Zoological Park, commonly known as the National Zoo, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States, and as part of the Smithsonian Institution, does not charge admission.

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* The Caracal at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park

* Stork Fact Sheet, from Smithsonian National Zoological Park

* " The Loudest Animal in the New World ," Smithsonian National Zoological Park

In 1902, a flying cage was completed in the setting of the National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution.

In February 2004, plans were announced for a new Smithsonian Institution-affiliated Museum of African American Music to be built in the city's Coast / Lincoln Park neighborhood.

The current Garber Facility was ceded to the Smithsonian by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1952 after the curator Paul E. Garber spotted the wooded area from the air.

As director, Kelly oversees the facility in Rock Creek Park and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute ( SCBI ) in Front Royal, Virginia.

In addition, the panel had broad oversight authority ( covering the National Park Service, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, public health programs, the Smithsonian Institution, etc.

He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, the first United States Minister to Mexico ( the United States did not appoint ambassadors until 1896 ), a U. S. Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren, and a cofounder of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science and the Useful Arts ( a predecessor of the Smithsonian Institution ), as well as the eponym of Poinsett County, Arkansas ; Poinsett Highway, Poinsett Bridge, and Poinsett State Park in South Carolina ; Lake Poinsett in South Dakota ; and the poinsettia, a popular Christmas flower.

Cultural events / activities include the annual Martin Luther King Birthday parade, the free weekly summer jazz concerts in Fort Dupont Park, the Fort Dupont ice-rink, the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and the tennis and learning center for youth on Mississippi Avenue.