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The beauty and richness of Africa's pottery resonates through
traditional and modern ceramic works of art |
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On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made the first powered,
piloted, and controlled flight in this heavier-than-air craft
in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina |
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The Ryan NYP was the airplane that Charles Lindbergh made his
historic solo, nonstop, transcontinental flight from New York
to Paris, May 20-21, 1927 |
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In this craft, John Glenn circled the globe three times in five
hours before splashing down in the Atlantic |
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The museums Folk Art galleries display objects that affirm
the basic human impulse to create |
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Art created since 1945 is featured in galleries dedicated to
Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting and Pop Art |
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Examines how transportation has shaped our American identity |
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Gowns and premier objects from the nearly century-old
collection |
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Gives visitors a peek into the working kitchen of one of the
worlds best-known cooks |
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Surveys the history of Americas military from the French
and Indian Wars to the present conflict in Iraq |
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Explores the forces in modern Native life that Native peoples
are profoundly influenced by |
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Events that shaped the lives and outlook of Native peoples from
1491 to the present |
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Explores the annual ceremonies of Native peoples as a window
on their ancestral teachings |
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Anacostia
Community Museum |
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Installed outside near the front entrance, this 15-foot weathered iron
sculpture is dedicated to the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood
Marshall |
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Nearly twenty of the most important and stunning screens from
the Freer Gallery of Art's Japanese collection |
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Small Glass Vessels and Sculpture Collected by Charles Lang Freer |
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The sculpted human form, created in a range of media that includes
stone, metal, wood, and clay, is the most striking and exuberant
expression of South Asian art |
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Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden |
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Alexander Calder's genius is epitomized by his found-object
"Fish" and several mobiles on the third floor. Outdoors, see
his red-blue "Six Dots over a Mountain" and soaring "Two Discs" |
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1960s Pop Art and similar responses to American mass culture
by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Arneson, Wayne Thiebaud
and George Segal enliven galleries |
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The American flag is instantly recognizable on this bank of
70 monitors, in which stars and stripes share air time with
split-second images |
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Watch living, breathing, roaring tigers—get to know each of
these ambassadors for wild tigers personally |
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A ground-breaking exhibit tackling the complex field of animal
cognition |
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leads visitors into the realm of the Amazon River Basin |
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Lizards, snakes, turtles, frogs, and other smooth or scaly animals
swim, step, and slither through numerous indoor exhibits at
the Reptile Discovery Center |
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Assembled here are fossils of dinosaurs that lived between 213
and 65 million years ago |
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Examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa’s
peoples and cultures over time in the realms of family, work,
community, and the natural environment |
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Explores the incredible diversity of mammals, including humans,
and the processes by which they arose and continue to adapt |
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Live spiders, centipedes, millipedes, crustaceans and insects
that visitors can hold year-round |
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The nations only complete collection of presidential portraits
outside the White House |
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American Origins, 1600-1900 takes the visitor from the
days of contact between Native Americans and European explorers
through the struggles of independence to the Gilded Age |
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Mail service and commercial aviation moved forward together
aboard the Wiseman-Cooke, the DeHavilland 4B, and the Stinson
Reliant – vintage aircraft from the first half of the 20th century |
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The beauty and lore of national and international stamps from
1847 to the present, highlighted by rarities from the National
Philatelic Collection |
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Renwick
Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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Transforms a trophy fish into a flamboyant multi-dimensional
collage |
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A masterpiece of artistic illusion by one of America's leading
art furniture makers |
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A handsome image of fluid organic growth in rigid handwrought
iron |
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A variety of materials, techniques, and motifs, which span almost
six thousand years, are explored in this exhibition of 228 objects |
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Twentieth-century Japanese artists give fresh interpretations
to the time-honored art of porcelain |
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The Nuhad Es-Said collection, arguably the finest collection
of Islamic metalwork in private hands, consists of twenty-seven
inlaid brass, bronze, and steel objects dating from the tenth
to the nineteenth century |
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