Collection Spotlights

View curated sets of collection items. Many of the collection items feature stories from our experts and curators.

shofar

Music and Spirituality

Voyager record cover

Music and the Cosmos

A marching band plays in a Washington, DC street

Music in DC

Photo of Madame Lillian Evanti's piano and piano bench

Musical Instruments

Hohner Corona II Accordion signed by Flaco Jimenez

Musical Migrant: Accordions on the Move

Trumpet used by Dizzy Gillespie

Musical Treasures at the Smithsonian

Elvis bust

Musicians as Art

Santa Claus on a shopping bag.

Must Be Santa

Collection of 3D scanned objects

NMNH Repatriation

A silver monoplane with the word champion painted on a yellow box on its side.

Nation of Speed

One cent coin engraved with left-facing Liberty with braided hair wearing a coronet. 13 stars along coin edge.

National Numismatic Collection

Collection of 3D scanned objects

National Park Service Paleobiology

Quilt made of colorful patches of various sizes, fabrics, and patterns. Quilt is trimmed with shiny red fabric

National Quilt Collection

Image of Discoverer XIII film return capsule

National Security Space

Tan Jaquard fabric. Central rectangle of fabric has a vermicelli design which is bordered by a stylized floral and artichoke design

National Woven Coverlet Collection

Among the Sierra Nevada landscape.

Natural Beauty

Neil Armstrong space suit

Neil Armstrong

tree with red branches illuminated with upcast lighting at night

Night Gardens

4 east asian coins

Numismatics

A metallic looking communications satellite against a black background.

One World Connected

Sumatran tiger at the Smithsonian's National Zoo

Open Access Animal Images

Smithsonian Open Access

Open Access Highlights

Mammoth Fossil

Open Access Highlights

oud lute

Origins of Stringed Instruments

solar wall

Our Star: Our Sun

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