Making a Modern Museum: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Museum of American History

Learn about the origins of the National Museum of American History (originally the Museum of History and Technology) and consider what those origins mean for the museum today and into the future. To mark its 50th anniversary, look back to the museum's origins circa 1964 and retrace the last fifty years to see how it evolved and transformed into today's National Museum of American History.