Photo Galleries
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival: A Cultural Conversation
Each year, the Smithsonian Institution stages a festival on the National Mall in Washington to honor cultural traditions from across the United States and around the world.
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Amplifying Women’s Voices in Asia
Women leaders from 20 countries across Asia will attend the Vital Voices of Asia summit September 14–17, 2010, in New Delhi, India. The summit will highlight the critical roles women in Asia play, and will focus on women as an economic force, their roles in political leadership and public life, and safeguarding women’s human rights — especially against violence.
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NASA Scientific Mission Studies Climate Change in Arctic
This summer, 50 scientists from leading U.S. research institutions spent five weeks aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy to study the impact of climate change on the Arctic Ocean and polar ice cap.
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A Changing Planet
A huge water reservoir that millions of people in cities rely on is being depleted. A mountain once covered in glaciers now lies bare. Where there used to be rain forest there are now pastures. And the story goes on.
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Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
An exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, tells the story of the coiled sweetgrass baskets made by the Gullah/Geechee people of the southeastern United States — descendants of slaves brought from Africa 300 years ago.