This week, DCPL released 88 photos taken by residents as part of its new “Archive This Moment” collection.

The library received nearly 100,000 pieces from Shawn Walker’s complete collection.

It was taken from the Smithsonian Institution Archives and returned last week.

The D.C. Public Library is hoping to harness the Godfather of Go-Go’s significance on Washington’s history by adding a collection of artifacts from Chuck Brown’s career to its permanent archives

Hey, it’s American Archives Month. And while tackling that years-old pile of receipts and documents probably isn’t too high on your priority list, the task might not seem so bad after you consider the job in front of the National Air and Space Museum Archives.

Photo by Shahar Azran, Courtesy NMAAH >> On April 17, the Natural History Museum opens Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Masterworks of Yup’ik Science and Survival. The exhibit explores the Yup’ik elders’ scientific and spiritual knowledge of living in the sub-arctic environment of western Alaska. See more than 200 19th- and 20th-century tools, articles of clothing, weapons, and watercraft. The Yup’ik solutions for living within such a harsh climate is unsurpassed by Western…