Smithsonian Institution

We all know that the Smithsonian Institution and its 19 museums and many storage centers houses a number of lighthouse-related artifacts. Most lighthouse enthusiasts think that the Smithsonian must have one or more of nearly every type of lighthouse artifact somewhere either on display or in storage. We recently decided that it was time to try to find out just what artifacts the Smithsonian owns and where they are located. Your Society contacted the Smithsonian National Museum of American History to begin the process of determining what lighthouse-related artifacts were located there.