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Alexander Calder's "Gwenfritz": Rededicating a Modernist Icon

On Halloween day, a gorgeous 40-foot-tall black specter mysteriously rematerialized at its old haunts on the west lawn of the National Museum of American History.

Founding director Frank Taylor stands on the Museum's 5th floor terrace, surveying construction.
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50 Years Ago Today: Opening a “Palace of Progress”

The Museum of History and Technology (the previous name of the National Museum of American History) was dedicated 50 years ago, opening to the public on the following day, January 23, 1964. Director Art Molella reflects on the fascination with the future and sense of modernism that shaped the Museum’s outlook and even our building.

Invention Stories

Traveling in Time with James Smithson

If James Smithson could have traveled in time to our day, what would he make of the Institution?

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