Smithsonian Voices

From the Smithsonian Museums

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Of Cables and Serpents

Why the transatlantic telegraph cable conjured dreams of sea monsters.

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MoMA’s first International Exhibition Three Centuries of American Art (1938)

Paul Lester Wiener and an unidentified advisor for the U.S. Pavilion murals

Reversing the Erasure of Native Contributions to Muralism

Dresden Star Medallion Quilt” by Emma Russell. Object no. 2007.5001.0002 Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

These Quilts Are Richly Stitched with the Stories of the Women Who Made Them

Plunguian’s watercolor of Einstein in his Princeton office (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Einstein’s “Relatively” Surprising Test Results

Photograph of Grayce Uyehara at the Ten Women in Leadership Conference, 1987 (AC1480-0000001, Grayce Uyehara Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History)

Because of Grayce Uyehara’s Story: Accessing Asian American Activism in the Archives

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The Power of the Flyer

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Of Mice and Marketing: A Story of Inclusion

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From Gutter Cats to Great Cats

Conserving Modern and Contemporary American Art

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