Smithsonian Institute

Introduction	Bibliography	Video
Pictures	Links	Interesting Facts

Introduction
        James Smithson was an important scientist.  He had an institute built, in the United States, after him. He was born in France and died in Italy.  The castle wasn't supposed to ba a castle and featured in the museums are his works that he conducted as a scientist.  



Interesting Facts

• The Smithsonian Castle was actually intended to be a College but never was.  
• James Smithson kept accounts and data he found while conductiong expirements.  
• James Smithson was a chemist and minerologist.  
• James made a will before he died and entailed his estates to his nephew.  
• It said if his nephew died without an heir the money would go "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge ...."
• The Smithsonian Institute burned in 1865.
• It burned many of the manuscripts originally acquired.  
• There are 19 different museums and gallaries that are all a part of the Smithsonian and a zoo.

• African American History and
  Culture Museum
• African Art Museum
• Air and Space Museum
• Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center
• American Art Museum
• American History Museum
• American Indian Museum
• American Indian Museum Heye Center
• Anacostia Community Museum
• Arts and Industries Building
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• Freer Gallery of Art
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• National Zoo
• Natural History Museum
• Portrait Gallery
• Postal Museum
• Renwick Gallery
• Sackler Gallery
• Smithsonian Institution Building,
  The Castle

Bibliography
Smithsonian. "Museums & Zoo." Smithsonian. Web. 29 Mar. 2011. <http://www.si.edu/Museums>.

"James Smithson - Founder Smithsonian Institution." Smithsonian Institution Archives. Web. 29 Mar. 2011. <http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/documents/smithson.htm>.


Video
 
Hall in Castle


Castle





Pictures
     





Links

Smithsonian Museums -click on the links on the left to visit each museum

http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/documents/smithson.htm

http://www.si.edu/Museums


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Alex Clark  8- Fulk St. Gabriel  
Last Updated: March 29, 2011
Louisville, KY