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Thursday, January 22
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Meet the Museum: Starry, Starry Night
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(for ages 2-7) Wacky Professor Van Gogh Go catapults young audiences on an incredible journey through space. This imaginative introduction to star gazing includes star stories and constellations brought to life by Stone Lion Puppet Theatre's unique hand and rod puppets. After the performance, you can check out the rockets and planes by just looking up.
Note: $6, adults; $5, children (ages 2-16); $4, Resident Members. Advance tickets only; no same-day sales.
Tickets required; call 202-633-8700 (see Note for prices)
Repeats Jan. 23
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The Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater
Location: Air and Space Museum Meet at the information desk
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| 10:30 AM
Botany Prints Over Time
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The Cullman Library in the National Museum of Natural History holds the Smithsonian's collection of rare books in anthropology and the natural sciences, including several hundred rare volumes about early botany, which is a field renowned for the beauty of its illustrations. With a special focus on orchids, curator Leslie Overstreet talks about the technologies of making and publishing botanical prints, while highlighting extraordinary woodcuts of 16th-century herbals, magnificent hand-colored botanical engravings from the 1700s and 1800s, and colorful 21st-century digital photography in the large-format "Botanica magnifica."
Free, but tickets required; call 202-633-3030
Repeats Feb. 11
Related Exhibition: Orchids through Darwin's Eyes: 15th Annual Orchid Show
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Resident Associate Program
Location: Natural History Museum See ticket for location
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| 12 Noon-12:30 PM
Meet our Museum
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
Free
Repeats most Thursdays
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National Museum of American History
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center
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Enterprise: Sister Ship of Columbia
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Valerie Neal, Space History Division, discusses the space shuttle Enterprise, the sister ship of Columbia.
Free
Continues 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month
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National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird
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| 6 PM
Selected Short Works
Films |
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(60 min.) The museum screens a selection of short films from its collection:
• Running Outburst (1975) by Charlemagne Palestine
• Three Transitions (1973) by Peter Campus
• Swamp (1971) by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson
• Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79) by Dara Birnbaum
• Beach Boys/Geto Boys (2004) by Cory Arcangel
• Female Sensibility (1973) by Lynda Benglis
• Walking Forward-Running Past (1971) by John Baldessari
Free
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.)
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| 6-6:30 PM
What's New at the Portrait Gallery: Adelyn, Ash Wednesday,
New Orleans, Louisiana: Face-to-Face Portrait Talk |
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The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker.
Today, curator of painting and sculpture Brandon Fortune talks about the portrait Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana by Alec Soth in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Thursday evenings
Related Exhibition: Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
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National Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet at F Street Lobby
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| 6:45-8:45 PM
Marine Corps Operations in World War II: Fact and Mythology
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As powerful as the memory of the Pacific War has been for the nation, it is even more so for the Marine Corps. The stories of the Pacific amphibious landings remain central to the entire ethos of the Corps today, its heroes, mythology, and even its principles of leadership. This evening, Aaron B. O'Connell (assistant professor of history, U.S. Naval Academy) explains the campaign and discusses its long-term effects on the Marine Corps.
$25, general; $20, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor)
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| Last update: January 15, 2009, 08:44 |
