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American Stories

April 12, 2012 - Indefinitely

Museum: American History Museum

Location: 2nd Floor, East Wing

A chronological look at the people, inventions, issues, and events that shape the American story, this exhibition showcases more than 100 historic and cultural touchstones of American history from the museum’s vast holdings, supplemented by a few loans. A changing exhibition space features new acquisitions. Highlights include:

• Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz
• a fragment of Plymouth rock 
• Benjamin Franklin's walking stick 
• Abraham Lincoln’s gold pocket watch
• a sunstone capital from the Mormon temple at Nauvoo, Illinois
• Bob Dylan's jacket 
• Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves
• Archie Bunker's chair
• Kermit the Frog
• former Secretary of State Madeline Albright’s suit
• Elphaba’s costume from the musical Wicked
• miniature teakettle from 1807

Spanish-language translations of the exhibition labels are available for loan at the information desks.

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