April 15, 2016 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center Fellowship Program supports projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society.
April 15, 2016 | Kate Wiley
The Lemelson Center is proud to announce that the Places of Invention exhibition has want the Society for the History of Technology's Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits. Established in 1985 through the generosity of Bern Dibner, the Dibner Award recog
March 31, 2016 | Michigan Science Center
Children and adults alike are used to solving problems in a virtual space, but real-world opportunities are also fundamental to the creative process. In an effort to power innovation, the Michigan Science Center (MiSci) is opening Spark!Lab, an educational and interactive space designed to support the creative process, collaborative thinking, and problem solving.
January 15, 2016 | Cricket Media
November 10, 2015 | Lemelson Center
Opens November 10, 2015; applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. EDT on November 23, 2015. Expected start date is January 2016.
September 23, 2015 |
The new Lemelson Center website has received a 2015 WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development for Best Education Website from the Web Marketing Association.
August 6, 2015 | Kate Wiley
Arthur Daemmrich, a leading scholar in science and technology studies, has been appointed director of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History.
June 29, 2015 | The Lemelson Foundation
Endowment will support top thinkers’ collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
June 18, 2015 | Kate Wiley
Lemelson Center Celebrates 20 Years with New Exhibits and the Return of Spark!Lab
June 18, 2015 | Kate Wiley
“Places of Invention,” the latest exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, opens at the National Museum of American History July 1. It examines six American invention hotspots across the country and throughout history, asking “Why here? Why now?”
June 18, 2015 | Kate Wiley
Draper Spark!Lab, the popular hands-on invention experience from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, reopens July 1 at the National Museum of American History in a new, open and flexible 2,000-square-foot space with the look and feel of an inventor’s workspace.
May 27, 2015 | Kate Wiley
Skateboarding and the Smithsonian? It’s a unique and successful concept grounded in the belief that invention and innovation happen every day in places often overlooked. In 2011, the National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation launched a broad collecting initiative focused on skateboarding and skate culture.
March 2, 2015 | Lemelson Center
Opens February 24, 2015; applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. EDT on March 13, 2015. Expected start date is May 14, 2015.
March 2, 2015 | Lemelson Center
Opens February 24, 2015; applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. EDT on March 13, 2015. Expected start date is May 14, 2015.
February 19, 2015 | Lemelson Center
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History reopened July 1, 2015! We are recruiting a new group of volunteers (called Ambassadors) to work with museum visitors in Spark!Lab, its hands-on invention space for children and families.
January 26, 2015 | Chris J Gauthier
Call for Applications to Exhibit at the 2015 Innovation Festival
September 26-27, 2015
National Museum of American History
Washington, D.C.
January 17, 2015 | ePals
Calling all kid-inventors! The official opening of the SparkLab! Invent It Challenge on January 17 celebrates Kid Inventors’ Day, which acknowledges the important role children can have in innovation worldwide.
September 10, 2014 | National Museum of American History
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History plans to transform how its audiences experience history by creating a multiplex of exhibition galleries, experiential programs and performance spaces and an education center within a 120,000-square-foot wing of its 50-year-old McKim, Mead and White designed building.
August 5, 2014 | Kate Wiley
Spark!Lab, a hands-on invention experience developed by the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, opens at Science City in Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 5, thanks to a generous donation from the Ford Motor Company Fund.
June 24, 2014 | Berkshire Museum
In October 2014, the Berkshire Museum will open Spark!Lab, an educational, interactive work space developed at the Smithsonian Institution by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History (NMAH). Spark!Lab is a hands-on, creative laboratory that engages children and families in the process of innovation.
