Wishing you a very Happy New Year from your friends at Smithsonian Affiliations! We can’t wait to kick off 2025 with more opportunities to connect communities around the nation with the incredible collections, exhibitions, educational programming and resources of our more than 200 Smithsonian Affiliate organizations! See you in the new year! #HappyNewYear2025 #Celebrate #SmithsonianTravelingExhibitions #MuseumOnMainStreet #SmithsonianAffiliations
Does your family eat candied yams on Thanksgiving? For one lady from Emeryville, California, they've been a staple in her family's Thanksgiving dinners for years! Listen to her story in this #StoriesFromMainStreet spot from our colleagues at Museum on Main Street!
What delicious Thanksgiving dish are you most looking forward to eating tomorrow? Let us know in the comments! Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving.
#Thanksgiving #CandiedYams #MuseumOnMainStreet #Thanksgiving #Smithsonian
Who's in the mood for a scary story? Well Museum on Main Street's #StoriesFromMainStreet podcast has just released a new episode in time for Halloween....and it'll give you a fright!
In "Shapeshifters, Ghosts and Red-Eyed Dogs: Spooky Tales and a Rich Heritage," Joe Perry (Choctaw) shares supernatural stories from his youth with students studying Choctaw Nation culture in Poteau, Oklahoma. Happy spooky listening! You'll find the podcast on all major platforms. Search for "Smithsonian's Stories from Main Street" and be sure to subscribe! Listen to the full episode here: https://s.si.edu/3ChWDjC
#Halloween #StoriesFromMainStreet #MuseumOnMainStreet #ChoctawNation #Storytelling #RuralAmerica
Three #DTLA museums present Smithsonian’s #OurSharedFutureLA, part of Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past.
Two weeks of exhibitions, panel discussions, food events, and family activities at the
Chinese American Museum, and our Affiliates the Japanese American National Museum and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes explore the rich and challenging history of Los Angeles and honor the city’s diversity.
Take Metro Los Angeles to visit all three from Dec. 1 through 17! Details at janm.org/OurSharedFuture
Happy #EarthDay! We've been celebrating #EarthWeek all week with our Smithsonian and Affiliate colleagues! Check out #OurSustainablePlanet to learn about the inspiring ways people and communities across the nation are creating solutions to environmental challenges!
Summer Internship 2023!
Calling all college sophomores, juniors, and seniors! Are you passionate about making a positive impact in the world and want to explore how museums and cultural organizations can strengthen and transform our world? Apply for the Leadership for Change internship this summer! Apply: https://s.si.edu/3XDyABR
Happy #LunarNewYear2023! Celebrate The Year of the Rabbit with the Smithsonian and our #SmithsonianAffiliates all day. The Year of the Rabbit symbolizes longevity, positivity, auspiciousness, wittiness, cautiousness, cleverness, and self-protection. Follow #SILunarNewYear!
We're celebrating #EarthDay with the Smithsonian! Tune in as our Affiliates across the nation share content from their collections, resources and programs that inspire us to create a more equitable and sustainable planet! #EarthOptimism
This year we are celebrating 25 years of bringing the Smithsonian to museums and cultural organizations across the nation, Panama and Puerto Rico! Joins us all day as our amazing Affiliates share some of the their favorite memories! Follow #SmithsonianAffiliations25 on Twitter and Instagram!
The Legacy of the Green Book
In 1936, Victor Hugo Green, a Harlem postman, began publishing a guide for African American travelers to offer travel options during America’s Jim Crow era. The Green Book, as it was known, was a sustained success—for almost thirty years -- providing Black travelers information on hotels, restaurants, service stations, and other facilities where they could expect welcome “without humiliation.”
Join Smithsonian Affiliations, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and author, photographer, and cultural documentarian Candacy Taylor to explore the legacy of the Green Book, its impact on communities, businesses, and families, and its relevance today.
we're #WakingTheAncestors today with awesome partners Plimoth Plantation and National Museum of American History! Come by at 2pm and hear the spiritual sounds of Massachusetts in the 17th century. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #Thanksgiving
Exciting times in Affiliateland! Our Director, Harold Closter, gets some camera time spreading the news of the impact Smithsonian Affiliates have in their communities (and at Grand Central Terminal too!). #TheSixtiesCNN