Indian village to participate in Blue Star museums program
May 20, 2013 in The Daily Republic
The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village is one of more than 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families and the Department of Defense.
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The Horse Effigy dance stick will be included in an exhibit featuring American Indian art from the Great Plains that will be displayed over the two next years at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo.
Dorothy’s ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” have a new home with a diverse set of artifacts in a new timeline of American history that includes a piece of Plymouth Rock, a slave ship manifest, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone and Kermit the Frog at the Smithsonian Institution.
In celebration of its bicentennial this year, the Academy of Natural Sciences has finally decided that it’s OK to boast a little. For what’s believed to be the first time in 200 years, curators will bring the public into the labyrinthine museum’s normally off-limits nooks and crannies for daily tours.
The boards of directors of the Adams Museum & House which oversees operations at the Adams Museum, the Historic Adams House and the Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center and the Days of ’76 Museum have been working together for some time to forge a closer partnership.
For Dennis Clark, a walk through the Smithsonian exhibit “Key Ingredients: America by Food,” is a trip down Main Street in the Valley City, N.D., home of his youth.
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