BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Exhibit: Preview: The Smithsonian: A Story of Discovery and Wonder

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Description of Pictures: Preview: The Smithsonian: A Story of Discovery and Wonder
March 20, 2015 – Indefinitely
Preview the upcoming exhibition: The Smithsonian: A Story of Discovery and Wonder. The upcoming exhibition will introduce the history of the Smithsonian and explore its museums, research, and public programs in art, culture, history, and science.
The exhibit will emphasize the unique capacity of the Smithsonian’s collections and research centers to
* spark discovery
* tell the Smithsonian’s story
* tell America’s story
* inspire lifelong learning
* and reach people everywhere.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. DISCOV_150412_001.JPG: "I then bequeath the whole of my property ... to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge among men." -- James Smithson, 1826 Welcome to Your Smithsonian The Smithsonian Institution started with a gift from an 18th-century English scientist named James Smithson (c 1765-1829), who left his fortune to the United States, a country he had never seen. This exhibition looks at the history of the Smithsonian, focusing on its research; museums; and public programs in art, culture, history, and science, and the role of the American public in the Smithsonian's museums and research. The Smithsonian is a partnership between its specialist staff and the American people.
2. DISCOV_150412_005.JPG: WHO WAS JAMES SMITHSON? The Smithsonian's benefactor, James Smithson, is something of a mystery. He was born sometime around 1765, in Paris, where his mother had gone to have the child in secret. She was a wealthy widow. Smithson's father was married to her cousin and one of the most fashionable men in England, he became the Duke of Northumberland and a great patron of the arts and sciences. James Smithson studied at Pembroke College, Oxford University, receiving a Masters of Arts degree in 1786. Smithson knew most of the great scientific minds of his age. If he had had Facebook in 1800, the charge above reflects what his network might have looked like. For Smithson, collaboration and communication with fellow scientists was essential. Even though Europe was at war for much of his life, he worked hard to exchange news and specimens with his colleagues abroad. He believed that the increase of knowledge came from sharing information. He even published reports of the small improvements he made to his scientific apparatus and pushed his colleagues to do the same.
3. DISCOV_150412_011.JPG: A Time of Great Scientific Discovery: Smithson devoted his life to the new fields of mineralogy and chemistry. He believed that science held the power to make society a better place and that scientists were "citizens of the world". Smithson conducted his experiments using simple, easily available tools, so that others could replicate and test his work. He was an expert with the blowpipe, an instrument that provided the extremely high temperatures of a furnace in a very controlled miniature environment. Smithson used the new tools of chemistry to explore a wide variety of substances. He analyzed a lady's tear, the juice of a mulberry, and the paint colors of an ancient Egyptian statue. He even published a paper on an "improved method of making coffee"! His most important paper resulted in the naming of the mineral Smithsonite.
4. DISCOV_150412_016.JPG: HOW WAS THE SMITHSONIAN CREATED? No one knew what to do with Smithson's bequest. There was wide public input into what the Smithsonian should be; many citizens submitted suggestions for what to do with Smithson's gift. After many twists and turns and against all odds, the Smithsonian was founded. A series of extraordinary circumstances surrounds the Smithsonian's creation. Had the outcome of any one of them been different, the Institution might never have existed at all. Smithson first left the bulk of his estate to his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, with the remarkable codicil that should the nephew die without children -- legitimate or illegitimate -- his fortune would go to the United States of America to found the Smithsonian Institution. If his nephew had fathered children, the clause in the will would not have been enacted, and the fortune would have remained with his family. Smithson's nephew died a mere six years after Smithson, as a young man and without heirs. When the United States was notified of the unprecedented gift in 1835, a debate started in Congress that lasted for almost a year. Many lawmakers were against accepting the fortune from a foreigner. Others were wary of creating a national institution in Washington, and some wanted to use Smithson's bequest for other purposes. Congress finally authorized acceptance of the Smithson bequest on July 1, 1836. President Andrew Jackson sent Richard Rush, a lawyer and diplomat, to the British Court of Chancery in England to c;aim the money for the United States. The court had a backlog of more than 800 cases, some of which would never be settled. The Smithson bequest faced an uncertain fate. Rush won the United States' claim in less than two years, a remarkably short time. Richard Rush had Smithson's assets converted to 104,960 gold coins and packed into eleven boxes for transport to the United States. Rush faced a perilous six-week transatlantic voyage to America, with squalls and gales that could have sunk the ship and lost the fortune to the sea.
5. DISCOV_150412_023.JPG: WHY A CASTLE? Congress decreed that the Smithsonian would include an art gallery, a library, a chemical library, a lecture hall, and a museum. A 28-year-old architect named James Renwick Jr. won the competition to create a building that could house all these diverse functions. There was no similar building in the United States in 1846. Renwick designed the Smithsonian Building (now known as the Castle) in a medieval revival style with Gothic and Romanesque details. The style was intended to evoke the cloistered, scholarly atmosphere associated with such venerable English colleges as Oxford and Cambridge. The dark red stone was a shocking choice for the capital city, where most public buildings were classical in style and built with marble or light Aquia sandstone. The building became a major landmark in American architecture. The cornerstone of the Castle was laid on May 1, 1847, in a grand Masonic ceremony that was attended by a reported 7,000 people. The president, vice president, and mayor of Washington DC were among the many dignitaries present. When the building was finally completed in 1855, it houses all the functions of the fledgling institution: chemistry laboratory, natural history laboratory, library, a scientific demonstration room, administrative offices, lecture hall, art gallery, natural history museum, and even living quarters for the Institution's first Secretary and his family. Joseph Henry's Living Quarters in the Castle
6. DISCOV_150412_037.JPG: Even with Smithson's gift finally on US shores, Congress debated for nearly a decade about what exactly an "establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge" should be. Numerous bills to establish the Smithsonian were voted down in Congress before the enabling act was finally signed into law on August 10, 1846. The legislation could easily have been forever embroiled in controversy and might never have been passed.
7. DISCOV_150412_040.JPG: Court of Chancery, Lincoln Inn Hall, 1808
8. DISCOV_150412_041.JPG: HOW DID ONE MUSEUM BECOME SO MANY? The Smithsonian has grown far beyond the walls of its first building to become the largest museum and research complex in the world. The Castle housed the earliest Smithsonian collections donated by citizens from across the country and around the globe. The United States National Museum, authorized by Congress in 1857, developed into many of the 49 museums at the Smithsonian today. Important private gifts to the nation from civic-minded individuals also created separate museums within the Smithsonian -- such as the Freer Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Early leaders Spencer Fullerton Baird, the first curator and second Secretary, and George Brown Goode, the director of the US National Museum in the 1880s and 1890s, developed collections and exhibitions that covered an ambitious range of topics. They issued circulars inviting the public to collect objects for study in the museum and identified lists of "Desiderata," items sought by the National Museum. This collaborative process of collecting, a partnership between Smithsonian staff and the public, continues to this day and has resulted in a world-class collection of over 138 million objects.
9. DISCOV_150412_047.JPG: Museums exhibitions are the public face of the Smithsonian and display some of America's most iconic objects. Yet there are millions more objects behind the scenes, from precious artworks to scientific specimens, that are equally valuable for study and research. Staff and volunteers at the museum document, catalogue, and conserve these collections. They describe specimens in detail; study their significance to art, culture, history, and science; post the information on the web; and publish articles and monographs. "It is only a great national museum which can hope to include all departments and which can... encourage growth in every direction." -- George Brown Goode, 1889
10. DISCOV_150412_052.JPG: Hadrosaurus in the Museum Hall of the Smithsonian, ca 1880
11. DISCOV_150412_055.JPG: WHAT'S HAPPENING IN RESEARCH AT THE SMITHSONIAN? The work of Smithsonian staff includes a tremendous amount of research that sparks discovery, tells the story of America, inspires life-long learning, and reaches people worldwide. The Smithsonian's earliest research projects focused on the study of weather, the arts, chemistry, natural history, the then new field of anthropology, and the evolution of life on earth. Today Smithsonian researchers, in facilities spanning the globe, study a range of topics, from unicellular life to massive dinosaurs, from earth to the far reaches of the universe, from folk art to modern art, American history from Native Americans to recent immigrants, and the impact of human and climate changes on our environment. The Institution that bears James Smithson's name continues to seek new knowledge of the 21st century with initiatives such as the Tennenbaum Marine Observatory, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opening in 2016, the Lunder Conservation Center, new experiments with artifact reproduction through 3D printing and reproduction of objects for use in classrooms, and many new mobile-strategy initiatives.
12. DISCOV_150412_061.JPG: James Smithson provided for an institution dedicated to the "increase and diffusion of knowledge," so research is an important component of our mission. It is often carried on behind-the-scenes, where it is out of sight of visitors. Research is central to everything the Smithsonian does. Its museum exhibitions, educational programs, cultural festivals, websites, books and magazines, and scholarly publications, etc. , are all based upon research at the Institution.
13. DISCOV_150412_064.JPG: THIS IS YOUR SMITHSONIAN The public engages with the Smithsonian in many ways. People come to exhibitions and participate in such related activities as family days and other public programs. Your class may have visited the Smithsonian as a group, or your teachers may have used curriculum materials provided by Smithsonian educators. Have you used our media -- the Smithsonian Channel, Smithsonian magazine, or one of our new apps? Do you listen to Folkways recordings, travel with Smithsonian Journeys, visit Smithsonian traveling exhibitions, or attend programs and classes offered by the Smithsonian Associates? Have you explored the Smithsonian's vast online resources? Through these programs and other forms of outreach, members of the public are partners with Smithsonian specialists in many fields of interest and endeavor. Have you volunteered at the Smithsonian? Did you know that the Institution has more volunteers than it has staff? Today there are volunteers across the globe -- some who have never even been to Washington DC are helping out online -- working in countless ways to support our museums and research facilities.
14. DISCOV_150412_073.JPG: Since its founding, the Smithsonian has opened its doors to the American people and visitors from across the globe, and staff have traveled far and wide to share Smithsonian collections and research to the broadest audience possible. The Smithsonian's website attracted 99 million unique visitors in 2014, reaching a new audience across the globe. Where in the world is the Smithsonian? "In short, the public museum is, first of all, for the benefit of the public. The peoples museum should be much more than a house full of specimens in glass cases. It should be a house full of ideas..." -- George Brown Goode, 1889
15. DISCOV_150821_04.JPG: "I then bequeath the whole of my property ... to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge among men." -- James Smithson, 1826 Welcome to Your Smithsonian The Smithsonian Institution started with a gift from an 18th-century English scientist named James Smithson (c 1765-1829), who left his fortune to the United States, a country he had never seen. This exhibition looks at the history of the Smithsonian, focusing on its research; museums; and public programs in art, culture, history, and science, and the role of the American public in the Smithsonian's museums and research. The Smithsonian is a partnership between its specialist staff and the American people.
16. DISCOV_150821_08.JPG: WHO WAS JAMES SMITHSON? The Smithsonian's benefactor, James Smithson, is something of a mystery. He was born sometime around 1765, in Paris, where his mother had gone to have the child in secret. She was a wealthy widow. Smithson's father was married to her cousin and one of the most fashionable men in England, he became the Duke of Northumberland and a great patron of the arts and sciences. James Smithson studied at Pembroke College, Oxford University, receiving a Masters of Arts degree in 1786. Smithson knew most of the great scientific minds of his age. If he had had Facebook in 1800, the charge above reflects what his network might have looked like. For Smithson, collaboration and communication with fellow scientists was essential. Even though Europe was at war for much of his life, he worked hard to exchange news and specimens with his colleagues abroad. He believed that the increase of knowledge came from sharing information. He even published reports of the small improvements he made to his scientific apparatus and pushed his colleagues to do the same.
17. DISCOV_150821_15.JPG: A Time of Great Scientific Discovery: Smithson devoted his life to the new fields of mineralogy and chemistry. He believed that science held the power to make society a better place and that scientists were "citizens of the world". Smithson conducted his experiments using simple, easily available tools, so that others could replicate and test his work. He was an expert with the blowpipe, an instrument that provided the extremely high temperatures of a furnace in a very controlled miniature environment. Smithson used the new tools of chemistry to explore a wide variety of substances. He analyzed a lady's tear, the juice of a mulberry, and the paint colors of an ancient Egyptian statue. He even published a paper on an "improved method of making coffee"! His most important paper resulted in the naming of the mineral Smithsonite.
18. DISCOV_150821_21.JPG: HOW WAS THE SMITHSONIAN CREATED? No one knew what to do with Smithson's bequest. There was wide public input into what the Smithsonian should be; many citizens submitted suggestions for what to do with Smithson's gift. After many twists and turns and against all odds, the Smithsonian was founded. A series of extraordinary circumstances surrounds the Smithsonian's creation. Had the outcome of any one of them been different, the Institution might never have existed at all. Smithson first left the bulk of his estate to his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, with the remarkable codicil that should the nephew die without children -- legitimate or illegitimate -- his fortune would go to the United States of America to found the Smithsonian Institution. If his nephew had fathered children, the clause in the will would not have been enacted, and the fortune would have remained with his family. Smithson's nephew died a mere six years after Smithson, as a young man and without heirs. When the United States was notified of the unprecedented gift in 1835, a debate started in Congress that lasted for almost a year. Many lawmakers were against accepting the fortune from a foreigner. Others were wary of creating a national institution in Washington, and some wanted to use Smithson's bequest for other purposes. Congress finally authorized acceptance of the Smithson bequest on July 1, 1836. President Andrew Jackson sent Richard Rush, a lawyer and diplomat, to the British Court of Chancery in England to c;aim the money for the United States. The court had a backlog of more than 800 cases, some of which would never be settled. The Smithson bequest faced an uncertain fate. Rush won the United States' claim in less than two years, a remarkably short time. Richard Rush had Smithson's assets converted to 104,960 gold coins and packed into eleven boxes for transport to the United States. Rush faced a perilous six-week transatlantic voyage to America, with squalls and gales that could have sunk the ship and lost the fortune to the sea.
19. DISCOV_150821_24.JPG: Even with Smithson's gift finally on US shores, Congress debated for nearly a decade about what exactly an "establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge" should be. Numerous bills to establish the Smithsonian were voted down in Congress before the enabling act was finally signed into law on August 10, 1846. The legislation could easily have been forever embroiled in controversy and might never have been passed.
20. DISCOV_150821_28.JPG: WHY A CASTLE? Congress decreed that the Smithsonian would include an art gallery, a library, a chemical library, a lecture hall, and a museum. A 28-year-old architect named James Renwick Jr. won the competition to create a building that could house all these diverse functions. There was no similar building in the United States in 1846. Renwick designed the Smithsonian Building (now known as the Castle) in a medieval revival style with Gothic and Romanesque details. The style was intended to evoke the cloistered, scholarly atmosphere associated with such venerable English colleges as Oxford and Cambridge. The dark red stone was a shocking choice for the capital city, where most public buildings were classical in style and built with marble or light Aquia sandstone. The building became a major landmark in American architecture. The cornerstone of the Castle was laid on May 1, 1847, in a grand Masonic ceremony that was attended by a reported 7,000 people. The president, vice president, and mayor of Washington DC were among the many dignitaries present. When the building was finally completed in 1855, it houses all the functions of the fledgling institution: chemistry laboratory, natural history laboratory, library, a scientific demonstration room, administrative offices, lecture hall, art gallery, natural history museum, and even living quarters for the Institution's first Secretary and his family. Joseph Henry's Living Quarters in the Castle
21. DISCOV_150821_36.JPG: Joseph Henry's Living Quarters in the Castle
22. DISCOV_150821_41.JPG: HOW DID ONE MUSEUM BECOME SO MANY? The Smithsonian has grown far beyond the walls of its first building to become the largest museum and research complex in the world. The Castle housed the earliest Smithsonian collections donated by citizens from across the country and around the globe. The United States National Museum, authorized by Congress in 1857, developed into many of the 49 museums at the Smithsonian today. Important private gifts to the nation from civic-minded individuals also created separate museums within the Smithsonian -- such as the Freer Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Early leaders Spencer Fullerton Baird, the first curator and second Secretary, and George Brown Goode, the director of the US National Museum in the 1880s and 1890s, developed collections and exhibitions that covered an ambitious range of topics. They issued circulars inviting the public to collect objects for study in the museum and identified lists of "Desiderata," items sought by the National Museum. This collaborative process of collecting, a partnership between Smithsonian staff and the public, continues to this day and has resulted in a world-class collection of over 138 million objects.
23. DISCOV_150821_50.JPG: Museums exhibitions are the public face of the Smithsonian and display some of America's most iconic objects. Yet there are millions more objects behind the scenes, from precious artworks to scientific specimens, that are equally valuable for study and research. Staff and volunteers at the museum document, catalogue, and conserve these collections. They describe specimens in detail; study their significance to art, culture, history, and science; post the information on the web; and publish articles and monographs. "It is only a great national museum which can hope to include all departments and which can... encourage growth in every direction." -- George Brown Goode, 1889
24. DISCOV_150821_54.JPG: James Smithson provided for an institution dedicated to the "increase and diffusion of knowledge," so research is an important component of our mission. It is often carried on behind-the-scenes, where it is out of sight of visitors. Research is central to everything the Smithsonian does. Its museum exhibitions, educational programs, cultural festivals, websites, books and magazines, and scholarly publications, etc. , are all based upon research at the Institution. "... No researches can be undertaken without producing some facts leading to consequences which extend beyond the boundaries of their immediate object." -- James Smithson, 1802
25. DISCOV_150821_55.JPG: WHAT'S HAPPENING IN RESEARCH AT THE SMITHSONIAN? The work of Smithsonian staff includes a tremendous amount of research that sparks discovery, tells the story of America, inspires life-long learning, and reaches people worldwide. The Smithsonian's earliest research projects focused on the study of weather, the arts, chemistry, natural history, the then new field of anthropology, and the evolution of life on earth. Today Smithsonian researchers, in facilities spanning the globe, study a range of topics, from unicellular life to massive dinosaurs, from earth to the far reaches of the universe, from folk art to modern art, American history from Native Americans to recent immigrants, and the impact of human and climate changes on our environment. The Institution that bears James Smithson's name continues to seek new knowledge of the 21st century with initiatives such as the Tennenbaum Marine Observatory, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opening in 2016, the Lunder Conservation Center, new experiments with artifact reproduction through 3D printing and reproduction of objects for use in classrooms, and many new mobile-strategy initiatives.
26. DISCOV_150821_58.JPG: THIS IS YOUR SMITHSONIAN The public engages with the Smithsonian in many ways. People come to exhibitions and participate in such related activities as family days and other public programs. Your class may have visited the Smithsonian as a group, or your teachers may have used curriculum materials provided by Smithsonian educators. Have you used our media -- the Smithsonian Channel, Smithsonian magazine, or one of our new apps? Do you listen to Folkways recordings, travel with Smithsonian Journeys, visit Smithsonian traveling exhibitions, or attend programs and classes offered by the Smithsonian Associates? Have you explored the Smithsonian's vast online resources? Through these programs and other forms of outreach, members of the public are partners with Smithsonian specialists in many fields of interest and endeavor. Have you volunteered at the Smithsonian? Did you know that the Institution has more volunteers than it has staff? Today there are volunteers across the globe -- some who have never even been to Washington DC are helping out online -- working in countless ways to support our museums and research facilities.
27. DISCOV_150821_64.JPG: Since its founding, the Smithsonian has opened its doors to the American people and visitors from across the globe, and staff have traveled far and wide to share Smithsonian collections and research to the broadest audience possible. The Smithsonian's website attracted 99 million unique visitors in 2014, reaching a new audience across the globe. Where in the world is the Smithsonian? "In short, the public museum is, first of all, for the benefit of the public. The peoples museum should be much more than a house full of specimens in glass cases. It should be a house full of ideas..." -- George Brown Goode, 1889
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Description of Subject Matter: Preview: The Smithsonian: A Story of Discovery and Wonder
March 20, 2015 – Indefinitely
Preview the upcoming exhibition: The Smithsonian: A Story of Discovery and Wonder. The upcoming exhibition will introduce the history of the Smithsonian and explore its museums, research, and public programs in art, culture, history, and science.
The exhibit will emphasize the unique capacity of the Smithsonian’s collections and research centers to
* spark discovery
* tell the Smithsonian’s story
* tell America’s story
* inspire lifelong learning
* and reach people everywhere.
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