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Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits – School Library Journal
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits
by Kara Yorio, Oct 03, 2025 | Filed in News & Features
The all-volunteer initiative is documenting exhibits at the more than 20 Smithsonian Institution museums and the National Zoo in response to the Trump administration’s announcement that museums’ contents would be subject to review and revision to align with the president’s directive.
When retired Virginia school librarian Mary Anne O’Rourke learned about a project to digitally archive the Smithsonian Institution museums, she immediately wanted to volunteer.
“I spent my career teaching children how to research and look up facts, how to know facts from distortions, and what were good sources? The Smithsonian has been our greatest source,” says O’Rourke, who was a preK–8 librarian for 11 years after being a classroom teacher and working at the Smithsonian Visitor Information Center.
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is an all-volunteer effort to document everything on display at the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the National Zoo, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Volunteers take photos and videos of exhibits in this crowdsourced archiving endeavor. Organizers call it “Crowd to Cloud” and plan to make the information accessible to the media and public.The initiative is a response to an August letter sent by the Trump administration to the Smithsonian Institution secretary stating that exhibits were subject to review and revision in an effort to “reflect the unity, progress, and enduring values that define the American story.” The letter went on to say it was an effort to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives.”
After learning of the administration’s intentions, Georgetown University history professors Chandra Manning and James A. Millward wanted to take action. Inspired by Save Our Signs—which seeks to document signs and information at National Parks that may be removed by the administration—Manning and Millward sent an email to the university’s history department saying they wanted to find a way to document the Smithsonian exhibits. Upon receiving the email, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, a graduate research assistant at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, immediately proposed possible ways of achieving the goal and offered to help coordinate. Not only is the dual master’s student pursuing a degree in Global, International, and Comparative History, the Smithsonian also holds a special place in her personal history.
“When I was in college, my partner and I were long distance, and we would meet up every other weekend in D.C. and go to the Smithsonian,” Dickinson Goodman says. “They are very personal to me. They’re a big part of my sense of my country, and my sense of my field, and my sense of pride in what it means to be an American—that we can produce these amazing free institutions to the public and to the world. And these institutions hold within them a huge amount of human wisdom and American and world experience that deserve to be accessible.”
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fondazione baruchello: “terra”, 2025-2026
La Fondazione Baruchello, insieme alla presidente Carla Subrizi, ha festeggiato l’anniversario della nascita di Gianfranco Baruchello (Livorno, 29 agosto 1924 – Roma, 14 gennaio 2023).
Siamo lieti di annunciare in quest’occasione che la programmazione della stagione 2025–2026 sarà dedicata al tema della “terra” attraverso un percorso annuale di ricerca, studio, sperimentazione artistica e mostre. La “terra” è considerata come terreno, materia e madre, coltivazione e cultura, elemento, fango, suolo e sottosuolo, stratificazione, habitat sociale e politico, lavoro e trasformazione, paesaggio, territorio, confine e attraversamento, scoperta, spazio, topos e utopia, spazio del possibile, terra di nessuno.
A inaugurare le attività espositive e di ricerca sarà la proiezione di quattro film di Gianfranco Baruchello, venerdì 3 ottobre 2025 dalle ore 18:00 in Via del Vascello 35: Il grado zero del paesaggio (1963), Ballade (1996), Le lieu (2010), Simulacrum (2011). Il ciclo di proiezioni si concluderà alla fine di dicembre.Gianfranco Baruchello, “Mud Sling Equipment”, 2017 (detail), Fondazione Baruchello
Fondazione Baruchello, together with its president Carla Subrizi, celebrated the anniversary of the birth of Gianfranco Baruchello (Livorno, 29 August 1924 – Rome, 14 January 2023).
We are pleased to announce on this occasion that the 2025–2026 season will be dedicated to the “earth” theme through a year-long program of study, research, artistic experimentation and exhibitions. “Earth” will be considered as land, matter and mother, cultivation and culture, element, mud, soil and subsoil, stratification, social and political habitat, work and transformation, landscape, territory, border and crossing, discovery, space, topos and utopia, possibility’s space, no man’s land.
Inaugurating the exhibition and research activities will be the screening of four films by Gianfranco Baruchello on Friday, October 3, 2025 from 6 p.m. at Via del Vascello 35: Il grado zero del paesaggio (1963), Ballade (1996), Le lieu (2010), Simulacrum (2011. The screening cycle will conclude at the end of December.#announcement #art #arte #CarlaSubrizi #exhibits #film #FondazioneBaruchello #GianfrancoBaruchello #mostre #ricerca #sperimentazioneArtistica #studio #video