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Events
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- Jeweled Objects of Desire
Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art
Tuesday, October 6 at 10:00am - American Letterpress: The Art ...
The Durham Museum
Saturday, October 31 at 10:00am - The White House Garden
Dixon Historic Center
Saturday, November 14 at 9:00am - In Plane View/Abstractions of ...
College Park Aviation Museum
Friday, December 4 at 10:00am - Jumpin' with the Big Bands
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
Saturday, December 5 at 10:00am - In Focus: National Geographic ...
Southern Museum of Civil War & Loco...
Saturday, December 12 at 9:30am
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Congratulations to these Affiliates in the news...
Sidney Mobell's fantastic collection of jeweled objects continues to make it way from one Smithsonian Affiliate to another, now on view until January 3 at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Elmhurst, Illinois. The pictured mousetrap consists of 14k gold and Russian diamonds...
Smithsonian in your Neighborhood "Hard Hat Tour" with Director Emerita Gwen Goodman, December 15, 2009
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Congratulations to our friends at Raíces Latin Music Collection, a Smithsonian Affiliate in New York City, on receiving a Save America’s Treasures Grant, announced December 9 by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. ...
Congratulations to these Affiliate news-makers! Discovery Science Center (Santa Ana, California) Science center unveiling huge globe Tellus Northwest Georgia Science Museum (Cartersville, Georgia)...
Smithsonian in your Neighborhood Hey Affiliates! Did you see the article about the Hirshhorn’s temporary, inflatable pavilion in the NY Times? Read about it below and follow @Hirshhorn on Twitter for the latest info and join the conversation at #hhbubble
www.nytimes.com
Richard Koshalek, the newly appointed director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, plans to erect a 145-foot-tall inflatable meeting hall on the National Mall.
Smithsonian in your Neighborhood President Andrew Jackson’s home is getting a facelift! Smithsonian Affiliate, The Hermitage: The Home of President Andrew Jackson will see major changes - $1 million worth of them – throughout December and January.
www.tennessean.com
After almost two centuries of wear and tear, weather damage, gnawing insects and the footsteps of millions of passing tourists, Andrew Jackson's home was ready for a face lift.
Smithsonian in your Neighborhood The National Museum of American Jewish History, an Affiliate in Philadelphia, is making great progress on their new building! Outreach Manager Jennifer Brundage took this picture while on the road on her recent trip to NY and PA. More info on their construction here http://www.nmajh.org/buildourfuture.aspx
Smithsonian in your Neighborhood Looking for a sweet lesson for the kids? Stop by the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, CA now through Jan 3, 2010 for their “Science of Gingerbread” holiday festival. Through interactive exhibits, the kiddos will learn about gingerbread house building from the ingredients to measurements involved in construction.
www.discoverycube.org
Events and Programs at Discovery Science Center including Field Trips, Annual Bubblefest spring break event, Women Explorers workshops, outreach programs, scout programs and more.
Smithsonian in your Neighborhood
Interested in seeing some of the rarest books from the Smithsonian? The Rubin Museum of Art, an Affiliate in New York, NY, recently collaborated with the Smithsonian Institution’s Dibner Library for the loan of some very rare books for their exhibition "Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Univers...e." The loan features rare, 16th and 17th-century books including an extremely rare 17th-century book by Galileo.
For more information about this collaboration and the SIL, check out these links:
Dibner Library - http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/Dibner/a
Smithsonian Institution Libraries - http://www.sil.si.edu/
www.rmanyc.org
Analysts are paired with David Byrne, Philip Taaffe, Jonathan Demme, Alice Walker, Cornel West, and 25 others in an exploration of C.G. Jung's Red Book. more...
Congratulations to these Affiliates making headlines this week! Do you have a link to a great story about an Affiliate...
Smithsonian in your Neighborhood
For well over 100 years, the name National Geographic has been synonymous with compelling photography. In Focus brings together a rare collection of expressive portraits and scenes from around the world and here at home. This collection of outstanding images, shot from the early 20th century to the late 1990s, not only... parallels the Society’s interest in the ethnographic study of “exotic” lands, but also reveals the magazine’s idealized view of domestic life in the United States during the Great Depression and World War II.
Read more at http://www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhi
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http://www.southernmuseum.org
Created by National Geographic and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and organize...d for travel by Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service
Time:9:30AM Saturday, December 12th
Location:Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History
Congratulations to all the Affiliates making headlineslast week...
