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Exhibition Title | Museum |
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Kids' FarmJune 12, 2004 - Permanent This child-friendly exhibition reveals that most of the food we eat comes from a farm and allows visitors to lend a hand around the farm. |
National Zoo |
Outdoor SculptureMay 26, 2004 - Permanent Real Justice was created by Washington, D.C.'s metal sculptor Allen Uzikee Nelson. |
Anacostia Community Museum |
Taking America to LunchApril 13, 2004 - Permanent On view are more than 50 children's and workers' illustrated metal lunch boxes and beverage containers dating from the 1890s through the 1980s to celebrate the history and endurance of American lunch boxes. |
American History Museum |
Sculpture: Monkeys Grasping for the Moon2004 - Indefinitely This whimsical sculpture, hanging from the atrium to the refllecting pool, is composed of 21 laminated wood pieces, with each forming the word "monkey" in a dozen different languages. |
Sackler Gallery |
BalloonamaniaDecember 15, 2003 - Permanent Some 400 objects from the museum's collection of ballooning memorabilia illustrate how ballooning captured the public's imagination during the 18th century in Europe and America. |
Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center |
Boeing Aviation HangarDecember 15, 2003 - Permanent More than 160 aircraft are currently on view to illustrate the scope of aviation history, including military, commercial, business, sports, and pre-1920 aviation and vertical flight (helicopters). |
Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center |
America on the MoveNovember 22, 2003 - Permanent This exhibition examines how transportation -- from 1876 to 1999 -- has shaped our American identity. |
American History Museum |
Mammals, Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall ofNovember 15, 2003 - Permanent Travel to four continents to see some 274 mammals in lifelike poses in their natural habitat and learn about what they share in common and what makes them unique. |
Natural History Museum |
The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial AgeOctober 11, 2003 - Indefinitely This exhibition presents the Wrights' technical achievements and examines the cultural impact of early powered flight. |
Air and Space Museum |
The Religious Art of JapanDecember 21, 2002 - Indefinitely Important works from the Freer's collection of Japanese religious art are exhibited. |
Freer Gallery |
Lemur IslandOctober 18, 2001 - Permanent This open-air exhibition is home to both ring-tailed and red-fronted lemurs. |
National Zoo |
Voyage - A Journey Through Our Solar SystemOctober 17, 2001 - Permanent This outdoor exhibition brings to life the great distances between the planets through a scale model of our solar system at one ten-billionth actual size . |
Air and Space Museum |
Explore the UniverseSeptember 21, 2001 - Permanent Learn what scientists think our universe is like, how the present scientific view of the universe came to be, how our universe is being shaped today, and what mysteries remain. |
Air and Space Museum |
Within These Walls...May 16, 2001 - Permanent The house and the exhibition that surrounds it tell the stories of five of the many families who lived there from the mid-1760s to 1945 and made history in their kitchens and parlors, through everyday choices and personal acts of courage and sacrifice. |
American History Museum |
Victory Garden- Permanent The Victory Garden represents a typical vegetable garden planted during World War II, when growing food for home consumption was an important part of the war effort. |
Smithsonian Gardens |
Exhibit Panels: The West Wing: A Chronology- Permanent This panel display reveals the history of the west wing of the Castle -- from its first use as the Institution's library to its use as The Commons dining room (through June 20, 2004).. |
Smithsonian Castle |
Entrance Sculptures- Permanent See two huge sculptures of Japanese warriors and a large stone Buddhist sculpture. |
Freer Gallery |
Permanent/Indefinite: Collection Highlights- Indefinitely Several levels showcase works by modern masters and emerging artists from the permanent collection in a variety of media. |
Hirshhorn Museum |
Outdoor Sculpture: Twisted Form by Shiro Hayami- Permanent Twisted Form (Traveler's Guardian Spirit) by Shiro Hayami. |
Freer Gallery |
The American Presidency: A Glorious BurdenNovember 15, 2000 - Permanent This exhibition of more than 900 objects related to the 43 men who have held the nation's highest office explores the public, personal, ceremonial, and executive boundaries of the presidency. |
American History Museum |