Examines the historical context and dynamism of the country's contemporary cloth production.

Of the original 500 magazines printed July 1942 that featured the American flag, this exhibition reunites 60 years later nearly 100 of these covers.

In this bilingual (English & Spanish) exhibition, vintage and modern recordings, broadsides, photographs, posters, musical instruments, and other memorabilia are used to explore the historical development of the corrido (ballad) in the New World over the past 200 years.

This showcase takes visitors back to the classroom by viewing an array of tools used to teach math throughout American history, from the 1800s to the present.

Over the next two weeks, approximately 20 Tibetan monks will create a 7' x 7' sand mandala as a healing response to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

In this exhibition, the first ever dedicated to art of the Nkanu peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a set of five, polychromed wall panels recently acquired by the museum are featured.

On view are a variety of Ivory Soap advertisements dating back to 1882, including images of the first Ivory Soap baby, 20th-century ads, and artifacts.

Chinese artist Xu Bing's seminal, best-known piece A Book from the Sky (Tianshu) are on view, along with books, scrolls, and wall posters printed, all using 2,000 unreadable imitation "Chinese characters" that were invented by the artist to express humankind's struggle with communication.

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 .

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.

America's most widely admired contemporary furniture craftsman.

Relating history from a personal dimension, this exhibition tells the story of 6 generations of a Chinese American family in Los Angeles from 1867 to the present.

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.

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.