Tag: Smithsonian
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Controversial Sites for Smithsonian’s Two Museums? You Decide
The Smithsonian announced in October its choice of two sites on the Mall for its new museums, the National Museum of Women’s History and the National Museum of the American Latino.
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Will the Smithsonian South Mall Plan Encourage More Building on the Mall?
On March 3rd, I presented testimony to the National Capital Planning Commission speaking to the major challenges we face on the Mall.
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Testimony: Coalition Chair Feldman Addresses the National Capital Planning Commission on the Smithsonian South Mall Campus Historic Core Revitalization
Good morning, Chair White and Commissioners. I am Judy Scott Feldman, Chair of the nonprofit National Mall Coalition. The Coalition is dedicated to advancing comprehensive, visionary planning for the Mall […]
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Welcome to Your National Mall: A Guide for First-Time Visitors
Throughout our country’s history, the National Mall in Washington, DC, has played a prominent role as a venue to inspire, celebrate, recreate, demonstrate, protest, and petition the government for redress […]
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Kirk Savage Awarded 22nd Annual Eldredge Prize
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2010 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kirk Savage for his book Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (University of California Press, 2009).
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Smithsonian Board of Regents public meeting coverage by New York Times
Dear Coalition Friends: The Washington Post and The New York Times, as well as AP, have stories about the Smithsonian Board of Regents public meeting this past Monday. It was […]
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Smithsonian Picks Notable Spot for Its Museum of Black History
Dear Coalition Friends: Yesterday, the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents chose a site on the Mall near the Washington Monument for its new National Museum of African-American History and Culture. […]
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