- Happy National Preservation Week! Check out how Smithsonian Institution Libraries is celebrating. [via Smithsonian Libraries Unbound].
- National Museum of American Indian (NMAI) just opened their exhibit, Ceramica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed, last month. [via National Museum of the American Indian]. The designs are not unlike some documented in sketches in the field books of William Foshag.
- Feeling the fiesta spirit with the coming heat of summer? Check out Smithsonian Collections blog highlighting celebrations in Peru documented in the Elayne Zorn Collection in NMAI’s archives. [via Smithsonian Collections Blog]
- Old meets new. Check out the 3-D replication of whale fossils found in Chile. [via Smithsonian Science]
- Zooniverse's latest project is all about field notes! Check out http://www.notesfromnature.org/ and help unlock historic biodiversity data!
- The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched its beta portal on April 18, making it possible to search across millions of items in collections across the country. [via Digital Public Library of America]
- Talking of fossils, check out the novel way this museum selected a fossil to be removed from its plaster jacket. [via Canadian Museum of Nature blog]