DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle):
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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:
- SICAS_220206_05.JPG: The Castle will be closed for maintenance in a couple of months. For now, they have installed monitors to measure if building cracks are expanding or not.
- SICAS_220630_05.JPG: Space Shuttle Spacesuit
Replica
The Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) is a reusable spacesuit for spacewalks. Astronauts have worn these suits to build the International Space Station and repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Each suit has 18 pieces that connect together to fit almost any size astronaut. The EMU is actually a personal spacecraft.
The suit has 14 layers:
* Three inner layers help keep the astronaut comfortable.
* Two middle layers help keep oxygen in the suit.
* Nine outer layers help protect the astronaut from extreme temperatures, solar radiation, and tiny buts of space junk.
- SICAS_220630_11.JPG: "The best blood of England runs through my veins. On my father's side I am Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kids, but this avails me not; my name will live on in the memory of men when the titles of the Northumberlands and Percys are extinct or forgotten."
-- James Smithson, undated
- SICAS_220630_15.JPG: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: Then and Now
- SICAS_220630_28.JPG: 175
Explore Smithsonian Architecture
- SICAS_220630_29.JPG: "... 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..."
-- Will of James Smithson, 1829
- SICAS_220630_37.JPG: Smithsonian Visitor Center
There's More to Explore!
Through this hallway view exhibits:
* Welcome to Your Smithsonian
* Building America's National Collection: 175 Years of Collecting
- SICAS_220630_40.JPG: Visitors to the Smithsonian
View of the museum in the Lower Main Hall, looking east
Visitors documented in an 1867 photograph posed toward the center of the Lower Main Hall, newly decorated after water damaged the walls during the fire that raged through the building's upper floor in 1865.
- SICAS_220828_13.JPG: Original Smithsonian Institution building
erected 1847-57. Designed by James Renwick Jr.
In twelfth century Romanesque style for the
first offices research laboratories exhibits
collections and lectures of the Smithsonian
institution dedicated to the increase and
diffusion of knowledge among men.
- SICAS_220828_25.JPG: Smithsonian Institution Building
1000 Jefferson Drive
- SICAS_220828_48.JPG: Futures banners
- SICAS_220828_59.JPG: "There is no better time, no better place to celebrate the cultures of the American people and those from around the world than at the Folklife Festival on the National Mall."
-- Ralph Rinzler (1934-1994) Founding Director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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