The Smithsonian Institution was established by an act of Congress in 1846 as an independent federal trust instrumentality, a ...
Research resources: Online Catalog, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Smithsonian Digital Repository, and more... The ...
The Smithsonian is one of the world’s foremost research centers in science, the arts, and the humanities. In addition to ...
America's “greatest pastime” as captured in the collections. For more see Baseball: America's Homerun from the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum and ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues: En ...
The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...