Smithsonian Institution

Release: Mar 20, 2025

Close: May 19, 2025

he Museum has also continually expanded its reach by engaging millions more online through its digital presence, including the Searchable Museum, the Museum’s signature online platform for interpretive, scholarly, digital experiences. The Museum launched the Searchable Museum in November 2021 with the release of its first exhibition experience, Slavery and Freedom. Since that initial release, seven exhibitions from the Museum’s permanent and changing galleries have been added to the Searchable Museum, along with many new digital stories, Constellations featuring objects from the Museum’s collection, and digital learning resources for educators and students. The Searchable Museum is committed to bringing all the Museum’s permanent exhibitions online while creating new, original, interpretive, digital experiences that reimagine the Museum’s exhibitions, collection, archives, and scholarly works in a digital space that engages online visitors with visually compelling, immersive, multimedia storytelling that is informative and educational. As an online platform, the Searchable Museum is built on a flexible, scalable, and secure cloud-based computing environment and content management system, using modern standards for web browser-based applications that meet current requirements for online accessibility, and align with the Museum’s established brand identity and online style guide.