557K views · 25K reactions | As we celebrate the incredible career of Nichelle Nichols, we've pulled out of the Archives these clips of her portraying her #StarTrek character Lt. Uhura in a 1979 promotional film for the then-new National Air and Space Museum. The film was called "What's In it For Me?" and it was produced by Nichols's company Women in Motion for the Museum. | National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution | Facebook

Several Minnesotans works are now on display the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibit “State Fairs: Growing American Craft.” Front and center is the promotional image: A crop art work by Minneapolis artist Liz Schreiber. Schreiber grew up in Virginia going to the museums and said, “I kind of flipped out when I got this email.” The Smithsonian visited the Minnesota State Fair in 2023 while Schreiber’s commemorative art piece was on display. They later commissioned her to make the piece w

6.2K views · 43 reactions | At the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, artist Emon Surakitkoson reflects on Hank Willis Thomas’s “Pledge” and seeing the American dream in art and in our own lives. Which artwork #atSAAM inspires you? : Hank Willis Thomas, Pledge, 2018, screenprint on retroflective vinyl mounted on aluminum composite | Smithsonian | Facebook

73K views · 4.9K reactions | #WATCH: Three Smithsonian museums reopened in Washington, D.C. Friday. The Museum of African American History and Culture, the American Art Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery. The first lady said it was “culture and beauty coming back to D.C.” | WPRI 12 | Facebook