The Collections Search Center provides easy "one-stop searching" of more than 2 million of the Smithsonian’s museum, archives, library and research holdings and collections. The access to more Smithsonian collections via this Search Center is increasing over time. Collections currently available include:

Museum Collections

  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
    11,700 records of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection.
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  • National Air and Space Museum Collection
    14,730 records of aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, navigational instruments, presentation models, awards, memorabilia and art works from the collection of the National Air and Space Museum Collection.
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  • National Museum of Natural History Collections
    109,300 records from the Department of Entomology representing mostly Insecta and Arachnida speciment collections.
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  • National Postal Museum Collection
    7100 collection objects including postage stamps, letters and envelopes, postal operation equipment, military mail, postal employee gear, and archival documents.
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  • National Portrait Gallery Collection
    12,000 records of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs and documents from the collection of National Portrait Gallery. 74,400 records from the Catalog of American Portraits.
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  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
    40,000 records of painting, sculpture, photographs, prints, drawings, contemporary crafts and folk art from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Research Databases

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Archives Collections

Archival collections contain more than 420,300 descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, films, works of art and organizational records.

Smithsonian Libraries Databases

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  • Freer Sackler Gallery
  • National Museum of African Art
  • National Museum of Natural History

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