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Tuesday, January 20
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| 8 AM-5:30 PM Note: 1st floor closes 3:30; 3rd floor at 4:30
Renewing America's Promise
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, the museum opens at 8 AM today featuring special exhibitions and programs:
• 10 and 11 AM and
1:30 and 2:30 PM: Inaugural Moments: These programs highlight historical inaugural anecdotes, memorable excerpts from speeches, and inaugural poetry by historical poet laureates (1st floor, Center).
• 10:30 AM-3 PM: The National Museum of African American History and Culture distributes memory book materials and provides information on the gathering of oral history (2nd floor, East Wing).
• 1-3 PM: Deborah Willis signs copies of her book Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs (2nd floor, outside Mall Museum Store).
Free
Last day
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National Museum of American History
Location: American History Museum Throughout the museum
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| 10 AM-5:30 PM
Renewing America's Promise: Celebrate Asia in America
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, the museum features artist workshops for children and families, performances, and stories of Asian and Asian American celebratory traditions. Also a printed brochure of these programs is available at either museum's information desk.
• Freer Gallery, north corridor: Rare viewing of Portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt (1908) by American artist Gari Melcher, along with an autographed letter from President Roosevelt to museum founder Charles Lang Freer. • 1:30, 2:30, and 4 PM (Freer, Peacock Room): Leyland's Butler: The Story of Whistler's Peacock Room, performance tour by Jonathan Watkins • 2-4 PM (Sackler, sublevel 2, ImaginAsia classroom 2): Join the Band!: Asian Music Workshop with Bill Jenkins • 3-5 PM (Sackler, sublevel 2, ImaginAsia classroom 1): I Dream, I Promise, I Wish: Make a Storybook to Celebrate You, ImaginAsia family workshop with Sushmita Mazumdar
Free
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Throughout both museums
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Renewing America's Promise: Yoko Ono's Wish Tree
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, visitors are invited to write wishes for the future and attach them to Yoko Ono's Wish Tree. Also, docents are available during the day to discuss works in the galleries.
Free
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden
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Renewing America's Promise: Shepard Fairey's Artwork
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, the museum unveils today Shepard Fairey's large-scale, mixed media stenciled collage of Barack Obama with the word "hope" appearing below. The portrait came to symbolize the historic presidential campaign of Barack Obama.
Free
Related Exhibition: New Arrivals
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National Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture 1st Floor
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