Collection Spotlights

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

Dietzgen 1298-D Blackboard Protractor

Protractors

Cream colored punch card propped up against a brown box

Punch Cards

Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the Smithsonian Institution

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth.

Queens: Women Who Rule

4 thumbnail images in a grid

Race Beyond the U.S.

4 thumbnail images in a grid

Race and Place

a tiled image showing a yellow step stool, a blue and white vessel, a cash register, and a medical box device

Race and Wealth

3 images in a grid

Race and Wellness

4 images in a grid

Race, Arts, and Aesthetics

4 images in a grid

Race, Policy, and Ethics

Gold emblem with wing design and letters REO

Radiator Emblems

radio

Radio, Radio

Model of the Jupiter

Railroad Models

Railroad signal lantern, 1830s-40s

Railroad Signal Lanterns

post of Mary Pickford saluting

Rallying Support for the War Effort (WWI)

Light teal microscope

Recombinant DNA and the Birth of Biotech

vote button

Register and Vote!

Remember Pearl Harbor lapel pin.

Remember Pearl Harbor

Dr. King Holding Arms; Dr. King, John Lewis, Reverend Jessie Douglas, and James Farmer

Remembering Congressman John R. Lewis

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy: Champion for Civil Rights

Robert Kennicott

Robert Kennicott (1835-1866)

Chuck Berry's guitar

Rock and Roll Pioneer Chuck Berry

Image of F-1 rocket engine cluster on display

Rockets and Missiles

Roland Kavé's bongo drum

Roland Kavé

Roxie Laybourne

Roxie Laybourne: Feather Detective

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