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🐢🦀🐟🐙 "Rigs to Reef" - Wednesday, April 3rd at 1:15PM - Hear from @BSEEgov how the successful conversion of more than 500 decommissioned oil and gas platforms into enduring artificial reefs is supporting marine life in the Gulf of Mexico. FMI: https://t.co/DZ9n0tuPKb
#OTD 1872, President Ulysses Grant signs the act creating @YellowstoneNPS -- influenced in part by written accounts and artwork (like this painting by Thomas Moran in the @InteriorMuseum's collection) sharing the region's wonders: https://t.co/xaXHl3DlrN #HappyBirthday 🎂#147
For #RockYourMocs Day and #NAHM18, a highlight of some of the moccasins in our @InteriorMuseum collection: These early 20th-century white buckskin moccasins were made for an infant and feature a pale pink and blue beaded floral motif on each instep.
👇Asking our museum colleagues if anyone is familiar with this artist?👇Piece dated 1966 was likely a gift to what is now @Interior's Office of Insular Affairs. so the scene could be a Pacific island. Signature mostly illegible but includes name "Bonito." #foundincollection
35th Secretary of @Interior Douglas McKay--himself a WWI & WWII veteran--addresses an assembly of the @AmericanLegion c1954. #DOIVeterans
The Powell Survey traveled the canyons of the Colorado 1864-1872. Here explorers take a break at the foot of Marble Canyon. #travelsMW
Because of @Interior's historical relationships w/ US territories, @InteriorMuseum has objects like this steel drum from #USVI. #MusicMW
#MusicMW and the arts are showcased in 1 of 4 mural panels by Millard Sheets installed in 1948 at @Interior headquarters bldg. #MuseumWeek
In honor of #ManateeAppreciationDay, sharing from our museum collection this 1992 "Portrait of a Manatee" by artist Jim Berry (OSAC 02700)
Happening now @InteriorMuseum: @USFWS Tracy McCleaf is sharing her expertise on monarch #butterflies