The stylish slip-ons, which Vogue magazine declared "cool shoes for a cool cause, " have become a must-have item among fashion elite and received the People's Design Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum last year.
On Saturday, the Cyrus Cylinder is embarking on a nine-month tour of the U.S., starting with the Smithsonian's Arthur M.
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As such it is an object of international significance and is about to start a tour of five major U.S. museums, debuting at the Smithsonian's Arthur M.
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NPR's Melissa Block talks with Nathan Erwin, an entomologist at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History and Scott Harvey, an acoustical consultant with the company Polysonics, who has measured the noise levels of the cicada ruckus.
John Graham is a rover scientist at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.
The slippers are currently on view at the Smithsonian's American Stories exhibition.
The Smithsonian's Fitzhugh says ancient plant life in the hunting areas may tell us what the climate was like thousands of years ago.
The craft made a brief return to service as a ground test vehicle in 1984 before retiring to the Smithsonian's collection in 1985.
In 2010, Moggridge became the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, and was a recipient of that institution's lifetime achievement award.
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Staff at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington said they were heartbroken by the newborn giant panda cub's death, just six days after officials trumpeted its birth.
"Some of the great places of invention were the old industrial research labs, " says Arthur Molella, director of the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Ten Henson puppets from the 1950s TV show "Sam and Friends, " including the original version of Kermit the Frog, were donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in 2010.
Eileen Maxwell, a spokeswoman for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, said Depp has a tall order to fill if he wants to turn Tonto into a more positive image.
While discussions of cultural differences can spark debate, the Smithsonian's Eric Jentsch, a specialist in the NMAH's division of science, medicine and society, points to one object that's literally too hot to handle.
He discovered that the fabled watch had been at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History since 1958, so he called a curator there last month to ask if his ancestor's story was true.
The city has always drawn visitors with its constellation of civic monuments and world-class museums, including the Smithsonian's nearly decade-old National Museum of the American Indian (which, incidentally, has one of the best museum cafes anywhere).
He and his wife are behind the William and Sue Gross Family Foundation, an annual contributor to Columbia University, Doctors Without Borders and the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, which is building the 12, 000-square foot William H.
Museum curators have started adding select pieces of tramp art to their folk art collections, such as a pin cushion, comb box and crucifix acquired in 1986 by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.
"Rising Up" will be at the High through Sept. 2, 2012, after which it will travel to the 80WSE Gallery at New York University, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American Culture and History in Washington, and four other museums.
Obama has worn Browne's designs for other occasions, including a gray dress with black lace overlay to one of the presidential debates last fall, and she honored him last summer at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards for his contribution to fashion.
Discovery is at the Udvar-Hazy Center at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia.
Steven Lubar is chairman of the history of technology department at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.
Northern Ireland will be featured at this summer's Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Ms. SUZANNE THOMASSEN-KRAUSS (Textile Curator, Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History): When you look at a lit object, what you're getting is only the light radiation that's reflecting back off the object.
So, Saturday morning, a team of scientists and veterinarians artificially inseminated the Smithsonian National Zoo's female giant panda Mei Xiang, after determining that she and her male consort Tian Tian had "no competent breeding" overnight, according to a statement from the National Zoo.
Hot or not, it's something the Smithsonian never plans to show, but has committed to keep.
Haley's costume, he learned, had been lost or destroyed, Bolger's donated to the Smithsonian.
During the short Siberian summer on Russia's Zhokhov Island, Smithsonian anthropologist William Fitzhugh discovered a 4, 000-year-old basket.
Mr. Leggio, who helped to fund Mr. Lasorda's portrait at the Smithsonian Institution, said he asked Mr. Lasorda to appear in the commercial after Ontario city officials contacted him with the idea.
In July, a yearlong retrospective of Christenberry's work opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, while the Aperture Gallery in New York is hosting an exhibit of his photographs through August.
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