Our Featured Events

Explore “Symbols of Diplomacy” that help shape our nation’s past and present diplomatic activities from inside the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State.

HHLib9: Encouraging Innovation and Technology, the top online tech conference for librarians, will feature inspiration and how to’s. Take part in sessions that share the wide range of insights and experiences that come with implementing technologies and programs to meet the needs of library users.

Explore women’s contributions in relation to the women’s rights movements from the late nineteenth century to today.

Explore the history and culture of U.S. immigration and migration through community stories, objects and experiences with Smithsonian curators and experts.

The world of ePublishing is changing at a dizzying rate. What is it, where do you start, and how do you find out the latest developments? This workshop will have the answers!

Join us for the sixth edition of our popular conference series for museum professionals as we explore developing a mobile web site, writing a mobile strategy, and more in this fast-moving field.

Some of the best and brightest from the MCN Community will share their experience, skills and knowledge in an ongoing series of how-to workshops.

Please join us for the fifth edition of our popular series for museum professionals. Meet and interact online with colleagues working in mobile interpretation from around the globe and walk away with practical knowledge you can put to use immediately at your institution.

The National Youth Summit brings middle and high school students together with scholars, teachers, policy experts and activists in a national conversation about important events in America’s past that impact the nation’s present and future.

Handheld Librarian 7 will include talks on ebooks, location-based social networking, lending devices, reference and mobile technologies impacting society - by librarians for librarians.

The National Air and Space Museum will be offering a free, live webcast for early childhood educators, parents, and enthusiasts to learn how to teach inquiry science to three-, four-, and five-year-olds.

The 2012 Smith Leadership Symposium will inspire new ways of thinking about the business of arts, science, and cultural institutions

Jonathan Finkelstein, founder of LearningTimes and director of the BadgeStack Project, recently spoke to Dr. Martha J. Kanter, Under Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education. The discussion turned towards digital badges and the role they can play in education and workforce development.

Join faculty, staff and administrators in higher education worldwide as they share their expertise and engage in productive forums about the use of educational technology for teaching and learning.

The Smithsonian Institution and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello are co-hosting a free interactive online conference for teachers and secondary students that will examine different aspects of Jefferson’s life. 

The two-day, interactive online conference will examine how libraries are capitalizing on community collaborations- whether through faculty scholarship and student learning, facilitating connectedness and fostering literacy in a town, or reaching out online.

Join us for the National Rural Education Technology Summit 2.0 - a one-day online event for teachers, students and rural education stakeholders sponsored by the US Department of Education. The engaging and interactive program will showcase how technology is being used to overcome the challenges of distance and increase access to educational opportunities in distant and remote rural areas.

In partnership with AAM’s professional network committees, the Virtual Conference will showcase ten sessions of broad appeal and greatest relevance to the 2012 annual meeting theme “Creative Community.” A stellar cast of subject matter experts will offer broad, multidisciplinary perspectives to museums of all types and sizes.

How do you measure & articulate social media success at your museum? This workshop will have the answers!

Please join us for the fourth edition of our popular series for museum professionals. Meet and interact online with colleagues working in mobile interpretation from around the globe and walk away with practical knowledge you can put to use immediately at your institution.

The Smithsonian is offering teachers a multidimensional resource for expanding and enriching curriculum with Shout, a free environmental exploration program. Through interactive webinars, comprehensive lesson-planning materials and hands-on activities, Shout features renowned Smithsonian scientists and other experts in the arts and humanities.

In this online workshop you will join renowned online facilitator and author Jonathan Finkelstein to learn and practice effective, practical and creative strategies and techniques for the live online environment. 

Learn how to access the MicroObservatory robotic telescope network operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Join us for a deep dive into Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) products and c ome away with skills to start addressing your own DAMS needs.

Communicating the Museum, the world’s leading arts communications conference, will be hosting an Online Conference for the first time this year. The Online Conference will allow the online audience to follow and interact with keynote speeches and learning sessions from this international event, direct from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The MicroObservatory telescopes can be used in a variety of ways to facilitate powerful STEM learning for your students - come learn how to use it with your students.

Join us for the 2012 American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Online Conference and participate in six engaging sessions, plus hear from two Annual Conference featured speakers - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Will Bagley!

This 50-minute, interactive session is designed for educators to learn about the exciting science behind the world's most famous telescope.

Learn the key questions you should be asking, strategies to deal with common issues, gain confidence in your ability to get your project off to a great start.

Learn why frogs are disappearing around the world, why it matters to you, and what is being done to prevent their mass extinction.

Join us for the seventh edition of our popular conference series for museum professionals exploring responsive web site design, mobile strategies, and much more in this fast-moving field.

We will be hosting three sessions on the Will to Adorn: African American Dress and the Aesthetics of Identity, the multi-year, collaborative folk cultural research and public presentation project initiated by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Join the National Air and Space Museum for an interactive online conference developed especially for teachers and secondary students. Historians and educators from the Museum, and guests from the Department of the Navy and National History Day, will demonstrate critical thinking skills they use to evaluate information.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums, presents a webinar series based on the national initiative "Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action".

This series of three online events — taking place on Friday, April 1, 2011 live from the Art Gallery of Ontario — is scheduled in conjunction with the opening of Inuit Modern: The Esther and Samuel Sarick Collection of Inuit Art.

"Cross Cultural Interchange and Aspirations of Universality: The Peacock Room in 1908" is online interactive colloquium organized by the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Pentagon Memorial Fund, and Flight 93 National Memorial offer a free online conference for designed to provide K-12 educators with resources and strategies for addressing the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Join us September 21, 2011 for the next free event in the Shout online conference series featuring Smithsonian experts. We'll explore the forest service, look at earth from space, hear the latest on the Tree Banding citizen science project, and connect with a panel of Smithsonian scientists to hear the latest on their environmentally-related work.

Author Parker J. Palmer of the Center for Courage & Renewal kicks off a series of conversations about “doing democracy from the inside out.” Thousands join the first event online from hundreds of convening sites around the world.