Our Mission and Vision

Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is an all-volunteer effort to document everything on display at the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, the national zoo, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial museum.

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Founded August 21, 2025, in its first 7 weeks volunteers for this project recruited

• 1500+ volunteers who have donated

• 49,975+ photographs and videos and documented 

• 100% of current Smithsonian exhibits led by

• 20+ volunteer captains, each working to document one full museum.

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Join us as we race to document the next exhibit.