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A graffiti artist is bent over, holding a spray paint can, finishing his colorful artwork that looks like a green slime monster with sharp teeth and bloodshot, bugged-out eyes, with its tongue flapping in the wind. The monster holds a skateboard reading, “Gums and Tongue.”
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Innoskate London

The Smithsonian and skateboarding? In England? Sick.

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Lemelson Center Research

Innoskate

Innoskate explores skate culture’s creative spirit and history of innovation.

Tennis racket used by Althea Gibson
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Exploring Sports and Innovation at the Lemelson Center

“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.” This often paraphrased quote inspired me to think about the “how” in terms of sports and innovation.

Invention Stories

How to Hover

Inventions to tackle the fascination with floating a few inches off the ground.

Patti McGee and Di Dootson Rose at Innoskate 2013
Beyond Words

Podcast: Patti McGee and Di Dootson Rose, Pioneering Skateboarders

Patti McGee and Di Dootson Rose talk about their lives as women skateboarders and offer some insight on skateboarding's place in American culture.

Jacob Rosenberg
Beyond Words

Podcast: Jacob Rosenberg Turns the Camera on Skateboarders

Jacob Rosenberg explores the skate world through his films.

Cindy Whitehead speaks at Innoskate 2013
Beyond Words

Podcast: Robin Logan and Cindy Whitehead, Pioneering Skateboarders

Robin Logan and Cindy Whitehead talk about their lives as two of the first professional women skateboarders and offer some insight on skateboarding’s place in American culture.

Invention Stories

Joining the Boys Club: Cindy Whitehead and Skateboarding

Cindy Whitehead is one of the only women ever to be featured riding vert in the centerfold of a skateboarding magazine.

Research Opportunities

Interning at Innoskate

As a former skateboarder, Innoskate intertwined my interests for history and skateboarding, creating new perspectives that I had never before considered!

Invention Stories

A Unique Way to See the World: Skateboarders and Inventors

Highly creative and innovative people seem to share a common characteristic of being able to engage their world—not for what it is, but for what it has the potential to be. While meeting with members of the skate community, I learned about the unique way in which they view the world.

Beyond Words

Video Podcast: Rodney Mullen Skates through the Invention Process

Skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen talks about the intersection of skateboarding and invention.

Beyond Words

Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen, Skateboard Legends…and Inventors?

Rodney Mullen, the unquestioned leader and pioneer of street skating, spoke to us about the role of invention and innovation in American life—while skating on our roof.

Invention Stories

Dude! Tony Hawk Skates into History

Tony Hawk's early career and the evolution of skate culture in the 1980s can be read through the technology and the stickers on the skateboard that he donated to the Museum.

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