đŸ„‡ The Votes Are In! Your Smithsonian Story of the Year Is...

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Dear Friend,

Last week, thousands of you voted for your favorite Smithsonian stories of 2024 – thank you!

You shared your favorite scientific discoveries, cutting-edge projects, animal stories, and moments of 2024 and then put the top picks from each category to one final vote!

Your Smithsonian Story of the Year is...

Bringing American Women's History into Focus
Isabel Morgan (center) with other researchers
The Smithsonian American Women's History Museum launched its first virtual exhibition Becoming Visible: Bringing American Women's History Into Focus, which investigates the ways women's stories and contributions have been recorded, remembered, lost, and recovered throughout history. Image: Isabel Morgan (center) with other researchers in a photograph of the unveiling ceremony for the Polio Wall of Fame, Warm Springs, Georgia, 1958. Edmond Amateis papers, 1926-1977. Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.

And the common thread uniting this and all of the year's incredible achievements is just as extraordinary as the achievements themselves: YOU.

Your support made extraordinary accomplishments possible in 2024. Will you ensure 2025 is another year of discovering and sharing knowledge far and wide by locking in your tax-deductible gift now?

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This year, Smithsonian supporters like you helped achieve:
  • Groundbreaking Science – You helped Smithsonian scientists capture the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarized light for the first time, and discover that bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago.
  • Incredible Exhibitions – Thanks to supporters like you, art abounds at the Smithsonian, including The Future of Orchids: Conservation and Collaboration at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, and OSGEMEOS: Endless Story at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
  • Heartwarming Moments – You helped celebrate the arrival of two giant pandas from China, and the birth of two pygmy slow lorises, two red-crowned cranes, and a litter of black-footed ferrets.
  • Cutting-Edge Advances – Your support helped Smithsonian scientists devise a method to create a biorepository on the moon, and make air pollution data on a neighborhood scale available to the public online in near real-time from the TEMPO instrument.
Every one of these remarkable moments is a testament to what your support accomplishes at the Smithsonian. That's why the Smithsonian National Board has created a Challenge Fund goal of $300,000 – to keep the Smithsonian at the forefront of scientific advancement, artistic achievement, and educational excellence into 2025 and beyond.

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Smithsonian supporters are some of the most passionate and intrepid defenders of knowledge around. Make a tax-deductible Challenge Fund gift to your Smithsonian to fuel even more innovation, inspiration, and exploration in 2025.

You are what makes the Smithsonian extraordinary. Thank you for believing in the power of knowledge.


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