Collection Spotlights

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

Passenger Pigeon

The Passenger Pigeon

chocolate bar

The Power of Chocolate: Cocoa and Chocolate in American History and Culture

Muppet dog playing keyboard

The Puppets and Muppets of Jim Henson

titanic passengers

The RMS Titanic

shopping bag that reads The Shopping Bag: Portable Art

The Shopping Bag: Portable Art Medium and Message

Statue of Liberty graphic by Roy Lichtenstein.

The Statue of Liberty: Symbol for a Nation

Watercolor drawing of the wood block printing process

The Tokuno Gift

Schmidt Ukelin

The Ukelin and Related Instruments

The 1903 Wright Flyer biplane against a black background.

The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age

gold skull with rose colored sunglasses

Things That Scare Us: Our Favorite Spooky Collection Items

A read monoplane. The front of the plane is detached and functions as a compact car.

Thomas W. Haas We All Fly

Painting of a landscape depicts a stream, trees, and rocky banks

Thomas W. Hunster

American flag whirligig

Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue

marbleized teapot with hand and butterfly

Time for Tea

The Titanic

Titanic

Ball Wall Clock

Tracking Time: Clocks and Watches through History

toy train

Trains at Smithsonian Station

tile

Treasures from Ancient Near East

Rock and Roll single stamp

Treasures of Rock and Roll: Iconic Artists and Artifacts

Metal quarter-circular protractor

Trigonometry in the Plane

Models for Spherical Trigonometry

Trigonometry on the Sphere

census jug

U.S. Census: Counting on You

Uncle Sam I Want You for the U.S. Army poster

Uncle Sam: The Man and the Meme

group of violins

Violins and their Makers

Women's suffrage wagon

Votes for Women

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