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Smithsonian Student Orientation Videos

Welcome to the Smithsonian. These orientation videos outline some of the most exciting exhibits in various Smithsonian museums. Created for students, the videos also illustrate a few museum dos and don'ts.

Smithsonian Teacher Orientation Videos

Welcome to the Smithsonian. These orientation videos outline some of the most exciting exhibits in various Smithsonian museums. Created for teachers, the videos also illustrate a few museum dos and don'ts for school groups.

Smithsonian Education Videos

Videos of various topics from the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies

History and Heritage Months

Smithsonian heritage videos, including how-to arts and crafts demonstrations, handmade family storybook ideas, artist interviews, music and dance performance, lectures, and festival highlights.

Museum-related Lectures

G. Brown Goode Smithsonian Education Lecture Series

The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies produces the annual G. Brown Goode Smithsonian Education Lecture Series. Through this series, named after the Smithsonians earliest proponent of museums as educational institutions, Smithsonian staff can help keep abreast of emerging developments in education pertaining to many aspects of their work, from exhibit design to outreach in the schools.

Uploaded videos

Santiniketan to Smithsonian: A Tribute to Tagore

The Smithsonian presented a two-day symposium to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary and to honor the life and work of poet, playwright, painter, composer, educator, and humanist Rabindranath Tagore, the Renaissance man, the leading light of modern India and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). Video material from May 28--29, 2011.