Smithsonian Poster Sets

Resources Available for Exhibition

Available for Loan: Educational Resources

Through the Birthplace of Country Music Museum’s Smithsonian affiliation and work with other museum and exhibit providers, we have several educational resources that are available for borrowing by teachers, schools, libraries, and nonprofit organizations. These include poster exhibition sets and topic-specific kits that provide a variety of educational and engaging activities. You can book these resources for different timeframes HERE.

Poster Exhibition Sets

A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture

A Place for All People Poster Set This poster set explores African American history and culture through mediums such as oral histories and art, from enslavement and to the present. In addition to African American history, it discusses the process of building the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, which opened in 2016, and the challenges faced during its creation.

# of posters: 20
Format: Framed
Size: 18.5 x 26.5 inches
Hanging requirements: Hanging rail system or picture hooks in wall
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Poster handbook, programming ideas, and educational resources are available

Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964

This poster exhibition set consists of six posters, with text in English and Spanish, about the Bracero Program, a guest worker program between Mexico and the United States in the mid-20th century. During its run, millions of Mexicans were employed through short-term labor contracts in the United States. This exhibit explores the dichotomy of the program as being a system of opportunity, but also a system of exploitation. The set comes with an exhibition handbook as well as educational resources.

# of posters: 6
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 18.6 x 26.6 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Additional information: Poster handbook and user guide, including promotional resources and educational resources, are available.

Choosing to Participate

This set includes posters that are designed to encourage dialogue to increase community engagement and participation. Designed specifically for middle and high schoolers, the poster provide examples of how small things can make a difference in their communities.

# of posters: 11
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 9 posters are 28.5 x 19.5 inches, 2 posters are 28.5 x 9.75 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Poster handbook and user guide, including promotional resources and educational resources, are available

City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign

This set has 18 posters about the grassroots movement that was organized following the declaration from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that poverty was a human rights issue. During May and June of 1968, thousands of demonstrators came to Washington, DC and formed an encampment named “Resurrection City” on the National Mall.

# of posters: 18
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 26.5 x 18.5 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Poster handbook and user’s guide, including promotional resources, programming ideas, and educational resources, are available

Destination Moon

This poster set features seven posters dedicated to NASA space programs and travel from 1961 to 1969, with a focus on the Apollo 11 mission.

# of posters: 7
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 6 posters are 19 x 26.5 inches, 1 poster is 38 x 26.5 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Educational resource materials are available

Journey Stories

This set of posters covers the voyages – voluntary and involuntary – of people who traveled to build new lives across states, continents, and the globe in American history. The exhibition includes important chapters such as Western expansion and Native American displacement, African American migration from the Deep South, and important developments in transportation technology.

# of posters: 7
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 18.5 x 26.5 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Poster handbook and user guide, including promotional resources, programming ideas, and educational resources, are available.

Picturing Women Inventors

This set of posters explores the inventions of 19 highly accomplished American women. Astronauts, computer pioneers, and businesswomen join athletes, engineers, and even teenagers in this remarkable group of inventors.

# of posters: 8
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 24 x 18 inches
Hanging requirements: Command strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Curriculum materials developed by Smithsonian educators are available

Pollination Investigation

This set includes posters about how pollination works, what classifies as a pollinator, and why the process is vital to the natural world. Additional education links are provided through the Smithsonian Learning Lab Collection and the Smithsonian Science Education Center.

# of posters: 14
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: Posters measure 18 x 24 inches, Profile pages measure 18 x 13 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Downloadable exhibition handbook and user guide are available.

Sounds of Religion

This set includes posters exploring how sound is incorporated and produced in religion and religious rituals and gatherings. This exhibit is unique because of its use of QR codes that allow viewers to listen to eight recordings that enhance their learning experience.

# of posters: 12
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 24 x 36 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Poster exhibition handbook and user guide, including promotional and educational resources, are available.

The Mask of Lincoln

The Mask of Lincoln This set features posters of portraits of Abraham Lincoln that are from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. The portraits follow Lincoln’s life from being an Illinois congressman to his presidency in the 1860s.

# of posters: 12
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 19 x 13 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: N/A

The Way We Worked

This display features the ways people in Bristol and the Tri-Cities worked in industries such as coal, timber, retail, agriculture, and even local newspapers. It was created as a supplement to the 2021 special exhibit The Way We Worked, which traced the way work became such a central element in American culture over the past 150 years.

# of posters: 15
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 37 x 37 inches
Hanging requirements: Command stirps
Source: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Additional information: N/A

To Make Our Voices Heard: Tennessee Women’s Fight for the Vote

To Make Our Voices Heard: Tennessee Women’s Fight for the Vote explores the history of the women’s suffrage movement, Tennessee’s dramatic vote to ratify the 19th Amendment in 1920, and the years that followed.

# of posters: 8
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 48 x 36 1/16 inches
Hanging requirements: Command stirps
Source: Humanities Tennessee / Tennessee State Museum / Tennessee State Library and Archives
Additional information: Includes map of suffragist activities across the state of Tennessee

Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence

This set includes posters following the women’s suffrage movement from 1832 to 1920. The exhibition also discusses women’s political activism, the racism amongst suffrage organizations, and the movement’s legacy and its relevance in today’s United States.

# of posters: 10
Format: Framed
Size: 18 x 24 inches
Hanging requirements: Hanging rail system or picture hooks in wall
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Poster handbook and user guide are available.

World War I: Lessons and Legacies

This set includes posters discussing how World War I affected the world, with a focus on the United States. From new technology and medicine to women’s rights and unionization, this exhibit examines how World War I impacted the daily lives of Americans.

# of posters: 8
Format: Unframed, printed on Sintra board
Size: 18 x 26 inches
Hanging requirements: Command Strips
Source: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Additional information: Poster handbook, user guide and educator’s guide, are available.

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