Many Lenses is a joint initiative from three Smithsonian museums: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of American History. To create this installment, curators from each museum selected objects from their collections. Each curator then asked experts from the other two institutions to provide additional...

The Smithsonian Institute is home to a large collection of archival material in need of transcribing, including "field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo albums, manuscripts, biodiversity specimens" and other material that may be of interest to students and scholars across disciplines. To address this need, the Institute has invited members of the general public to...

Finns, Germans, Italians, and countless other groups have contributed mightily to the decorative arts traditions within the Badger State, and this lovely online database pays homage to those works, while also offering scholars and others access to this important collection. Inspired by the fieldwork undertaken by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in the 1970s and 1980s, this project...

The mission of the Woodson Research Center at Rice University is to "support the institutional, research and public service programs of the University." Their collections include the institutional records of the institution, along with materials on United States Southern history, British history and drama, Houston, and business. As part of their work, they have contributed hundreds of items to...