Fact Sheets

Click a link below to view fact sheets about Smithsonian museums, research centers and programs.


Awards and Medals

Hodgkins Medal
Langley Gold Medal
Order of James Smithson
The Henry Medal
The James Smithson Bicentennial Medal
The James Smithson Medal

Exhibitions

"More Than a Picture" Bios
15th Anniversary of September 11
Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia
Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall: Artifact List
Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall: GO FLIGHT Digital Experience
Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall: Staff Bios
Highlights of Thomas Jefferson Objects in the Smithsonian Collection
Hoja de datos: Módulo de Comando Apollo 11 Columbia
Horatio Greenough’s George Washington
Nancy Pelosi Donation Ceremony: David Skorton Bio
Nancy Pelosi Donation Ceremony: John Gray Bio
Nancy Pelosi Donation Ceremony: Nancy Pelosi Bio
Nancy Pelosi Donation Ceremony: Speaker Bios
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Angola Prison Tower
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Edisto Island Slave Cabin
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Inaugural Exhibitions
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Southern Railway Car
National Portrait Gallery 50th Anniversary: Advance Exhibition Schedule
Political History Collections at the National Museum of American History
Revitalization of Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum: Key Artifacts
Tyrannosaurus rex
Women's History: Artifacts on Display
“Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait” Bios: Exhibition Curator and Lenders
“American Visionary: John F. Kennedy’s Life and Times”
“Americans”
“Americans” Companion Book
“Americans” Exhibition Curator Bios
“Americans” Exhibition School Programs
“America’s Presidents” Artist Bios
“America’s Presidents” Exhibition
“America’s Presidents” Exhibition Bio: David Skorton
“America’s Presidents” Exhibition Bio: Kim Sajet
“Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed”
“Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission” Object List
“Franklin and the Nurturing of Science in Early America”
“Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)”
“More Than a Picture”
“Moving Beyond Earth” Curators
“Moving Beyond Earth” Interactive Displays
“Nation to Nation” Exhibition
“Native Fashion Now” Biographies
“Presidentes estadounidenses”
“Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume”
“Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume” Costume List
“Rick Araluce: The Final Stop”
“Suited for Space”
“Tamayo: The New York Years”
“The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World” Exhibition
“Time and Navigation”
“Time and Navigation” Interactives and Website
“Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound”
“Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound” Artist Bios
“Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound” Museum Director and Curators

General Smithsonian

Board of Regents Committee Assignments
Buildings in the South Mall Master Plan
Examples of Projects Supported by the Smithsonian Campaign
Facts About the Smithsonian Institution
Founding of the Smithsonian Institution
History of the Smithsonian
Hoja de datos de la Institución Smithsonian
James Smithson Biographical Information
Los Secretarios de la Institución Smithsonian
Smithsonian Campaign—By the Numbers
Smithsonian Collections
The Secretaries of the Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Board of Regents
The Smithsonian Institution Fact Sheet

Museums

A History of the National Air and Space Museum
Anacostia Community Museum
Architectural History of the Renwick Gallery
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Centro de Actividades imagiNATIONS
Collection Highlights (Photos)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Design and Construction
Design Firms
Freer Gallery of Art
imagiNATIONS Activity Center
National Air and Space Museum
National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar Hazy-Center
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Chronology of Events
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Construction—Cool Facts
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Installed Collection Items
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of American History
National Museum of Natural History
National Museum of Natural History: The Dinosaur and Fossil Hall
National Museum of the American Indian in New York
National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall
National Portrait Gallery
National Postal Museum
Public Art, First Floor
Renwick Gallery - Architectural History
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park
The National Air and Space Museum Today

Programs

Bei Bei Birthday Celebration Backgrounder
Community of Gardens
Digitization of Smithsonian Collections
Earth Optimism Summit: Smithsonian Participants
Education Initiatives for Military Families
Education Initiatives—Smithsonian Learning Lab
Education Initiatives—Summer Institutes: Teaching the Humanities Through Art
Education Initiatives—Videoconferences with Students
History of the São José Slave Ship and Site
Nation’s T. rex Public Programs
Richardson Symposium: Racial Masquerade in American Art and Culture
Slave Wrecks Project
Smithsonian Affiliations
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Smithsonian Associates
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Smithsonian Gardens
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Smithsonian Journeys
Smithsonian Latino Center
Smithsonian Libraries
Smithsonian “Think Water” Initiative
The Smithsonian's Partnership with Kickstarter

Research

Archives of American Art
Bao Boa Departure FAQ
Cerro Ballena Fact Sheet
Cerro Ballena: Hoja de datos
Early Sound Recording Collection and Sound Recovery Project
Feathered Dinosaur, Anzu wyliei
First in Flight . . . Still the Wrights
Giant Panda Cub Developmental Milestones
Hoja de datos Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales
Museum Conservation Institute
Museum Support Center
Olinguito
Olinguito (en español)
Smithsonian and Jamestown Rediscovery Partner To Reveal Identities of Four Lost Leaders of Jamestown
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Smithsonian Science Education Center
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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