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Elizabeth and her fellow educators at @americanart help illustrate what is so powerful about the @Smithsonian's work with students. Responsive to teachers' and students' needs, our programs teach art, history, and transferable skills essential to a rich and fulfilling life.pic.twitter.com/roErmttRea

After exploring Johnson's "Café" and other @americanart works, students are invited to write. One student's poem in response to this work was titled "A Mysterious Brunch." Another was "The Lovely Jazz Night." Thank you, @dealvikings students, for sharing your writing with us.pic.twitter.com/X0NwFnuq7Q

While its flat geometric shapes may not immediately invite closer looking, exploring "Café" with @americanart educators reveals intriguing depth. In our programs, students develop skills we all need in 2019: questioning assumptions, seeing multiple perspectives, building empathy.pic.twitter.com/wA2fDrxCh2

Johnson's "Café" is one of the artworks Elizabeth and fellow @americanart educators use with eighth graders visiting from Washington, D.C., public schools. She prompts them to discuss their reactions and discover how the 1939 image is relevant to their lives today.pic.twitter.com/viC1R3oRXy

Honored that @NMAAHC has been awarded the 2019 @AIANational Institute Honor Award for Architecture. I am so grateful to the many teams who made this building sing for all of us. Explore its architectural details and inspirations: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/building …pic.twitter.com/WRxzoK42L7

The Ecuadorian boat seat represents the shared connections between the cultures of the transatlantic slave trade in the Americas. #HispanicHeritageMonthpic.twitter.com/b8Ozi2MHq2

Many formerly enslaved people fled to the swampy areas of Ecuador away from white enslavers, where they traveled waterways by canoe. Elderly women made the canoe seats. This one was made by Garza's grandmother. Spot an image of the West African trickster, Anansi the Spider? #HHMpic.twitter.com/9fQbJklpnN

I'll never forget the 11 p.m. meeting with Juan Garza, a self-described "Afro-Ecuadorian," that resulted in the first object entering @NMAAHC's collection. For #HispanicHeritageMonth, I want to share with you the story of this wooden boat seat from Ecuador. #CreatingNMAAHCpic.twitter.com/b7NK6oooMe

Launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999, @chandraxray has been illuminating the universe around us for 20 years. Thank you to @saoastro's @belindawilkes, @astro_cady and @NASA for celebrating with us. Keep pushing the boundaries of human knowledge higher and further.pic.twitter.com/OXi6N9Rspb

I was thrilled to return to Japan recently to speak at the @IcomOfficiel conference. In the 1990s, I was honored to work in Japan as project director of the traveling exhibition "Smithsonian's America," which opened in 1994. #ThrowbackThursdaypic.twitter.com/rLfO39z0v0

It was the grandest challenge of my life to build and lead @NMAAHC, a place that asks audiences to grapple with our history and to live up to our highest ideals. Just as it transformed what a museum could be, I know the Smithsonian is a place to inspire and challenge the nation.pic.twitter.com/q9GRe5hRwp

The Smithsonian changed my life. Visiting as a kid in the 1960s, the Smithsonian made me feel like I belonged. Working at @airandspace and @amhistorymuseum, I was proud to show visitors that America's history and future belongs to them too, regardless of where they come from.pic.twitter.com/0yydlbVND1

Since it’s my first day on Twitter and less than 100 days since I became Secretary of the Smithsonian, I’m curious: What does the Smithsonian mean to you?pic.twitter.com/Rdh68HH5ed

Good morning, Twitter. 14th Secretary of the @Smithsonian here to hear from you and share my perspective as the leader of 19 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and several education units and centers.pic.twitter.com/n3v8jisUkA