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The past century of interstellar dust has brought us from first ignoring itto finding that it is an important component of the interstellar medium andplays an important role in the evolution of galaxies, the formation of starsand planetary systems, and possibly, the origins of life. Current observationalresults in our galaxy provide a complex physical and chemical evolutionarypicture of interstellar dust starting with the formation of small refractoryparticles in stellar atmospheres to their modification in diffuse and molecularclouds and ultimately to their contribution to star forming regions. In thisreview, a brief history of the studies of interstellar dust is presented. Ourcurrent understanding of the physical and chemical properties of interstellardust are summarized, based on observational evidences from interstellarextinction, absorption, scattering, polarization, emission (luminescence,infrared vibrational emission, and microwave rotational emission), interstellardepletions, and theoretical modelling. Some unsolved outstanding problems arelisted.

In Dust We Trust: An Overview of Observations and Theories of Interstellar Dust