Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

06/02/2026

👀 Check out our “Sea Monsters” exhibition on view now at the Mayborn Museum Complex!

06/02/2026

06/02/2026

If you’re human, you’re biased. But, the real question is: what do we do about it? Every brain develops its biases from the environment. But bias does not dictate our destiny. Explore the science of bias in "The Bias Inside Us" traveling exhibition on view now at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History!

06/01/2026

This is pioneering Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Margaret Hamilton. MIT played a critical role in the development of the flight software for NASA’s Apollo program, which landed humans on the Moon for the first time in 1969. Hamilton led the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory to develop the Apollo program’s guidance system. Ensuring that the programs had no errors required an enormous amount of paper documentation!

In our free “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission” poster set, you can explore more stories of the many women who played a crucial role in making this historic mission possible! Request your digital copy here: https://s.si.edu/45JSG1B 🚀🌒

05/29/2026

05/29/2026

You can see “At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at HBCUs” at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture through July 19. It will then travel on a national tour! More info: https://s.si.edu/4bB89q3

As the American landscape shifted during and following the Interwar years, life shifted quickly and was of note for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Many HBCU students sat poised to take on leadership roles in new and expanding industries across the nation. Documenting those shifts became increasingly important, which included migration patterns, wars, social unrest, and new innovations, against their own racial and intellectual progress. Margaret Walker understood that capturing those moments through literature, art, commentary, and networking events would help future generations comprehend and appreciate Jackson State University history.

Walker gained national attention with her 1942 poetry collection, “For My People,” which earned the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. She was later awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for her historical novel, “Jubilee,” which drew upon oral histories and recollections from Walker’s family members. Walker, who was also an activist and Jackson State University faculty member, founded the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People in 1968. Walker’s literary acumen helped bridge new authors with celebrated writers while at Jackson State.

Jackson State University is part of the HBCU History and Culture Access Consortium (HCAC), a five-year pilot initiative Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, collaborating with a select group of HBCU partners to strengthen museums and archives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Visit the “At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at HBCUs” exhibition, currently on view through July 19, to explore more nmaahc.si.edu/vanguard.

📸 White shell notebook journal owned by poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-1998), who was a professor of English at Jackson State University and founder of the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People, now known as the Margaret Walker Center. Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University.

05/28/2026

Get more facts about hummingbirds and many other pollinators in “Pollination Investigation,” a poster set from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and our colleagues at Smithsonian Gardens. Download your free digital copy here: s.si.edu/3ieJMC5

05/27/2026

05/22/2026

05/21/2026

The wait is over! We’ve unboxed the purrrrfect little surprise giveaway. 😻 (We love cat puns!).

We’ve named this one Marisol...after artist Frank Stella, one of the many artists featured in our newest exhibition "Artful Cats." This exhibition brings together more than 60 rare documents— sketches, drawings, letters, journal pages, and photographs— created by American artists from the 1880s to the 2010s.

Learn more about “Artful Cats” and our other traveling exhibitions in booth #920 at the American Alliance of Museums’s Annual Meeting! Can’t wait to chat.