The Smithsonian Institution, also known simply as the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the government of the United States. It was founded on August 10, 1846, "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. It was originally organized as the "United States National Museum", but that name ceased to exist as an administrative entity in 1967. More information...
In June 2020 the website si.edu was on the 276th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 185th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "si.edu" is the 224th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
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