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One of the current exhibits at the The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image - Part I: Dreams, is a very unique collection of moving-image and cinematic artworks.
Ranging from somewhat predictable Andy Warhol-like black & white still-life movies with not much happening, to some very […]
The American Evolution: A History through Art examines America’s history through its art, from colonial times to modern day America. Wealth and poverty, our American land, politics, cultural change, and the modern world are themes in the 200 piece collection at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
The American Evolution […]
During my college days, I visited my sister who was studying abroad at the University of Munich.in Germany. While there, a relative who lived in Munich took us on a tour of the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp, just outside of Munich. Dachau was one of the first such concentration camps designed by the Nazis, […]
Actually, there are in fact just two Smithsonian Air & Space Museums* in Washington, DC. But there is a third aviation museum, the College Park Aviation Museum, located at the world’s oldest continually operating airport, in suburban College Park, Maryland. With just 27,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space, it is tiny compared to the Air […]
In some great historical news, the Magna Carta, which had been on display until last October at the The National Archives, will be returning as a permanent public display at The National Archives, beginning this evening.
The 1297 charter of English la, which had been on display for over 20 at the Archives, and one […]
In April, I wrote about the controversial plastination human body exhibit here in Washington, DC, Bodies - the Exhibition. The major controversy surrounding the exhibit were reports of questionable sourcing of Chinese bodies, for use in the preserved and skinless anatomical exhibit. The claims were that many of the bodies were used in Bodies […]
After a five year absence, (and an additional 6-month delay), the “new” Newseum in Washington, DC is scheduled to open in its new location on April 11, 2008.
The new 250,000-square-foot, seven-level museum dedicated to news and the press covers five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.
Visitors will be greeted by […]
A piece of submarine history is floating in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and is open to the public for tours. The submarine is the USS Torsk, a WW-II Navy submarine. It made two war patrols in the Pacific theater during World War II and remained active until 1968.
The Torsk operated out of Pearl Harbor from where […]
The Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, DC houses probably the most important documents related to personal freedom, The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution along with the Bill of Rights are a monument to democracy, freedom, self-government and equality.
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson in June of 1776, The Declaration of Independence is […]
Finding and developing substances to relieve pain have been around almost as long as man. The first opiates, derived from the poppy, have been documented as far back as 4000 BC.
Searching for an effective medically-safe pain killer, led to the discovery of a wonder drug, morphine, in 1804. It’s appropriately named after the […]
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