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National Assisted Living Week Picnic “A Visit to a Museum Is a Search For ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF LINDA JOHNSON Executive Director [email protected] JULIE DIDION Community Relations Director 5020 Ryan Rd, Toledo, OH 43614 P: 419-389-0800 F: 419-389-0819 AUGUST 2021 [email protected] KRYSTAL ADKINS THE SMITHSONIAN: Resident Care Coordinator [email protected] MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE Nineteen museums and galleries, as well JENNIFER DAZELL as the National Zoological Park, comprise Business OVce Manager the Smithsonian museums. (See more on [email protected] page 3) Eleven are on the National Mall, the JODI KIMBALL park that runs between the Lincoln Activity Director Memorial and the United States Capitol. [email protected] Other museums are located elsewhere in Washington, D.C., with two more in New KILEY CULKOWSKI The Smithsonian Institution was York City and one in Chantilly, Virginia. Dining Room Manager The Smithsonian has close ties with 168 [email protected] established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist other museums in 39 states, Panama, ELLEN MATTESON National Assisted Living Week Picnic who left his estate to the United States to and Puerto Rico. These museums are Housekeeping found “at Washington, under the name of known as Smithsonian AVliated museums. the Smithsonian Institution, an Collections of artifacts are given to these PETE MOLINA museums in the form of long-term loans. Maintenance establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” On August 10, The Smithsonian also has a large number 1846, the U.S. Senate passed the act of traveling exhibitions, operated through organizing the Smithsonian Institution, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling which was signed into law by President Exhibition Service (SITES). In 2008, 58 of these traveling exhibitions went to 510 “A visit to a museum is a search James K. Polk. venues across the country. for beauty, truth, and meaning in Congress authorized acceptance of the Smithson bequest on July 1, 1836, but it Smithsonian collections include our lives. Go to museums as often 156 million artworks, artifacts, and SAVE THE DATE! took another ten years of debate before specimens. The National Museum of as you can.” Its that time of year again! The Annual the Smithsonian was founded! Once Natural History houses 145 million of these – Maira Kalman Family Picnic is on the books and it is on established, the Smithsonian became part specimens and artifacts, which are mostly Tuesday, September 14, 2021 of the process of developing an American animals preserved in Formaldehyde. The 5-7pm national identity—an identity rooted in Collections Search Center has 9.9 million It will be baseball themed so wear your exploration, innovation, and a unique digital records available online. favorite team! Every day this week will be American style. That process continues Smithsonian Archives hold 156,830 cubic Tlled with great fun for our residents and today as the Smithsonian looks toward feet (4,441 m3) of archival material. staff as we celebrate. the future. SMITHSONIAN WORD SEARCH GET DIGITAL! 175th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT The Smithsonian has vast digital The historic Arts and Industries Building resources that can be accessed from (AIB), is America’s Trst National Museum. home too! Education teams provide It is the centerpiece of the Smithsonian’s distance learning resources to support landmark 175th anniversary year, the and stay connected with the communities. The Gag File exhibit “FUTURES” will spotlight the Smithsonian scientists, curators, and National Museum of American History is Institution’s historic role as an engine of historians share their expertise through home to Phyllis Diller's jokes. The steel the future. Since 1846, the Smithsonian’s video and online events. Join us this cabinet, which Phyllis Diller called her Gag mission for the “increase and diffusion of month as we explore art, history, and File, has 48 Tle drawers containing more knowledge” has led to remarkable culture, inspired by the Smithsonian. than 50,000 3-by-5-inch index cards, each leaps—exploring the beginnings of the The Smithsonian offers Online Events bearing a typewritten joke or gag that universe, saving species from extinction, such as guided meditation, art workshops, Diller used in her stand-up comedy act. preserving the full diversity of human science webinars, story time, watch Each drawer is arranged alphabetically by culture and bringing new methods of parties, and more. Discover featured subject. Many of the topics listed on the digital learning to billions around the collections and stories, or search our front of the drawers suit Diller’s self- globe. digital content from art to zoology. deprecating persona of harried wife, Part exhibition, part festival, “FUTURES” Download, share, and reuse more than 3 mother, and homemaker. They offer comic will present nearly 32,000 square feet of SMITHSONIAN JOKES million 2D and 3D images from twists on subjects such as appliances, the new immersive site-speciTc art What do you get when you empty the Smithsonian collections. Take a virtual beauty shop, cooking, housekeeping, and installations, interactives, working Smithsonian? visit to the Smithsonian's National Zoo by family. Two Tles are devoted to jokes experiments, inventions, speculative The Air and Space museum. tuning into our live webcams. about her mythical husband, Fang. The designs and “artifacts of the future,” as Why can’t you feed the animals at the Smithsonian Libraries collections index cards reveal the framework that well as historic objects and discoveries Natural History Museum? include more than 35,000 digitized books Diller used to construct her jokes, a from 23 of the Smithsonian’s museums, Because they’re already stuffed. and manuscripts. Why can’t you just go to one Smithsonian pattern she describes as “a setup, pause, major initiatives and research centers. Lifelong Learning is offered via expert- museum? [and] payoff.” “FUTURES” will also debut a series of led lectures, virtual tours, and studio arts Because you have to see the Mall. In the 1950s, Diller and Jackie “Moms” new art commissions and a selection of classes produced by Smithsonian What's a geologists favorite museum? Mabley were trailblazers, taking stand-up large-scale technology projects to be Associates, the world’s largest museum- A smithstoneian routines into the clubs and theaters. Diller unveiled throughout 2021. based educational program. Why did the art thief's van run out of gas debuted at the famed Purple Onion in “In a world that feels perpetually Activities, games, apps, live animal cams, as he drove away from the museum? 1955. She gained a national following on tumultuous, there is power in imagining and more to explore from home. Because he had no Monet to buy Degas television specials with Bob Hope and the future we want, not the future we fear. to make the Van Gogh. You can even meet some of the directors, traveled with him to entertain U.S. troops. For 175 years, the Smithsonian has been Vandals have attacked the National curators, scientists, animal keepers, and Diller was a frequent guest on late-night helping people better understand who we Origami Museum... others who make up the Smithsonian talk shows and had a couple of short-lived are, where we have been and where we We'll keep you updated community. TV shows. want to go." as the story unfolds... DID YOU KNOW? The Smithsonian is the greatest display of hoarding the world has ever seen. All told, the Institution’s various artifacts, specimens, and other arcana is believed to number in the neighborhood of 154 million. Just 1% of that is available for viewing at any given time! Founder James Smithson is actually part 9. Arts and Industries Building: original Budget of the collection! He was interred in 1904, THE SMITHSONIAN COMMUNITY in DC home of the National Museum. The Smithsonian’s federal appropriation some 75 years after his death. He 1. National Museum of African American 10. Freer Gallery of Art: Asian art, for Tscal year 2021 (Oct. 1, 2020–Sept. is topped off by a marker and viewable to History and Culture: the only national American art, and Ancient Egyptian art. 30, 2021) is $1 billion. The Institution is the public. museum completely devoted to African 11. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture about 62% federally funded. In addition, American art, history, life and culture and Garden: modern and contemporary art. the Smithsonian has trust funds or non- opened a glorious new multi-Uoor facility THE COLLECTION 12. National Museum of Natural federal funds, which include contributions in the fall of 2016. Among the vast collections are History: earliest human and animal from private sources (endowments; 2. National Museum of African Art: irreplaceable national icons, examples of origins. Millions of insects, Tsh and plants. donations from individuals, corporations features exhibits from Africa. everyday life and scientiTc material vital to 13. National Portrait Gallery: media, and foundations; and memberships) and 3. National Air and Space Museum: the study of the world’s scientiTc and performing arts and visual arts, the story revenues from the Smithsonian 23 galleries exhibiting thousands of cultural heritage. The objects in collections of America and those who’ve helped Enterprises operation (magazines, mail- aviation and space artifacts, including range from insects and meteorites to shaped it. order catalog, product development, missiles, rockets and various planes. locomotives and spacecraft. The scope is 14. National Postal Museum: An amazing entertainment, shops, restaurants and 4. National Air and Space Museum, staggering—from a magniTcent collection of stamp collection and the history of the concessions). Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: showcase ancient Chinese bronzes to the Star- American mail service. Admission to all Smithsonian museums thousands of aviation and space pieces, Spangled Banner; from a 3.5 billion-year-old 15. The Renwick Gallery of the in Washington is free. A visitor’s center is including the space shuttle Discovery.
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