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Learn about our team’s most exciting stories, projects, events, and more!

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  • 2016 intern interviews OFMR employee for project
    • Exhibiting FM

    The ELITE Workers

    My main intern project was to create a short documentary on the Building Service Workers (Custodians) at the Smithsonian, that…Read More

    Waste Diversion at the 2015 Folklife Festival
    • Sustainability Initiatives

    Garbology

    Garbology: “The study of trash and its origins” All of the Smithsonian Institution (SI) museums in the Washington,…Read More

    Arts and Industries Building
    • Exhibiting FM

    Facilities Career Development Expo 2016

    Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, April 13, 2016 Before the start of my summer internship with the Smithsonian…Read More

    Sarah Hamad and Yenny Martin with their book Potato Pig
    • Exhibiting FM

    Facilities Fun for Everyone: Using Rhyme to Communicate Museum Rules to Our Youngest Visitors

    While completing a routine inspection of the National Fossil Exhibit in the National Museum of Natural History, conservation…Read More

    Earth Day 2015 workers at a table
    • Sustainability Initiatives

    SF Team Hosts Variety of Activities for Earth Day

    At the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Earth Day brought together facilities staff, scientists, office workers, and lab technicians…Read More

    Sarah Hamad and Yenny Martin read to kids
    • Exhibiting FM

    The Museum Mindfulness Project

    At the Smithsonian, our buildings host millions of visitors each year. Visitors, researchers, and staff all interact with…Read More

    Arts and Industries Building
    • Exhibiting FM

    Watch & Learn About OFMR

    The Office of Facilities Management and Reliability (OFMR) operates and maintains the facilities of the Smithsonian Institution in…Read More

    View of facility using infrared thermography
    • FM Technology

    Infrared Thermography (IR)

    “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift Infrared Thermography (IR), using…Read More

    OMFR employees pose for a photo during the end of the National Math Festival
    • Exhibiting FM

    Clean Math: Smithsonian Facilities Team Participates in First Ever National Math Festival

    Eight FM employees show children and adults how math is relevant to cleaning, masonry, and other FM fields…Read More

    Welding a fence
    • Exhibiting FM

    American Trail at the National Zoo

    The greatest new exhibit at the National Zoo, American Trail, debuted September 1, 2012. The exhibit is the…Read More

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