Entries by Elizabeth Bugbee

SITES in your neighborhood this summer!

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Smithsonian Affiliates across the country are bringing Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibitions to their communities this summer. Here’s what’s opening at an Affiliate in the coming months:   July 23 – October 2, 2011 Wisconsin Maritime Museum (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) Native Words, Native Warriors Native Words, Native Warriors tells the remarkable story of Indian soldiers from more […]

affiliates collaborate to Spark! imaginations

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Despite being the world’s largest museum complex, one of the challenges at the Smithsonian Institution remains taking the unique offerings away from the invisible walls of the National Mall and “encourage inventive creativity in young people” who may never visit Washington D.C. The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation has met this […]

kudos Affiliates! May 2011

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Bravo to the five Affiliates awarded IMLS’ 2011 American Heritage Preservation grants! National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium (Dubuque, Iowa) Plimoth Plantation (Plymouth, Massachusetts) Senator John Heinz History Center (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Wing Luke Asian Museum (Seattle, Washington) and Wisconsin Maritime Museum (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) were five of 54 museums nationally to receive the  grants from the Institute […]

NASA + Smithsonian + Smithsonian Affiliates = Blissful retirement for space artifacts

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On April 12, 2011 NASA announced new homes for three space shuttles soon to be retired from the space program at the end of this summer. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center   will receive the Discovery and the California Science Center  a Smithsonian Affiliate in Los Angeles, California,  will receive the Endeavour.   But […]