Making Connections: Lights Out at the Smithsonian
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About this Course
The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise.
Description: The Smithsonian is far from a monolithic entity. Cross-unit collaborations can be difficult to set up and coordinate for many reasons. Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky, a new exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, shows how we worked together (with help from friends like the IES) to raise awareness of light pollution and skyglow. And it's an example of the type of projects we're exploring as we work to educate people about climate change.
Associated links:
- https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/lights-out-recovering-our-night-sky:event-exhib-6676
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2023/03/23/peer-through-the-glare-to-glimpse-the-night-sky-in-new-smithsonian-exhibition/
- https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/lights-out
- https://americanhistory.si.edu/lighting/
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Hal Wallace
Curator
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Hal Wallace is curator of the Electricity Collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Responsible for over 25,000 objects documenting the history of electrical science and technologies, he has specialized in electric light and power history since joining the Smithsonian in 1995. Hal’s dissertation about the intersection of public policy and lighting history is the basis for his talk this morning.