Exhibitions

Egypt in America

March 16, 1981 – April 15, 1981

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

1st Floor, Computing & Physical Sciences (Observatory)

See on Map Floor Plan

View illustrations of the book, Description de L'Egypte, prepared by artists who accompanied Napoleon on his Egyptian campaign. The book's influence on American culture is traced by examples of glass, sculpture, and architecture popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries.