When the Titanic set sail in 1912, the people aboard would have been surprised to hear that there was a 2-in-3 chance they were about to die. They might have been even more surprised to know that a century later the odds would be similarly high that they would stumble upon a Titanic 100th-anniversary special on something called a television. The...
SOME large American museums, and an increasing number of smaller ones, offer domestic and international trips -- with Cuba currently all the rage -- that enliven the museums' images and at the same time help increase membership and raise money. Some are major institutions, like the Metropolitan Museum in New York City and the Corcoran Gallery of...
WASHINGTON -- About 600 people, including the country's first black president, gathered on the National Mall on Wednesday morning for a moment nearly a century in the making: the groundbreaking for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. ''It is real. It is real,'' Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, a hero of the...
Smithsonian institution er USA's nationalmuseum og består af et antal museer og gallerier samt National Zoo. To museer ligger i New York og de øvrige i Washington D.C. De samlede udstillinger har mere end 142 millioner objekter.