TITLE

What's Up

PUB. DATE

November 2006

SOURCE

Smithsonian;Nov2006, Vol. 37 Issue 8, p47

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on exhibits and shows in the Smithsonian museums. The top hat Abraham Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater the night he was shot is on display at the Air and Space Museum while the Museum of American History is closed for renovation. Mort Kunstler's painting of a buffalo soldier, featured on a 1994 stamp, is on display at the Postal Museum. Two short films by Danish filmmaker Jesper Just are showing at the Hirshhorn Museum. Prints from two nature photography contests are on display at the Museum of Natural History.

ACCESSION #

22816443

Tags: SMITHSONIAN Institution (Washington, D.C.);  NATIONAL Museum of Natural History (U.S.);  NATIONAL Museum of American History (U.S.);  LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809-1865;  KUNSTLER, Mort;  JUST, Jesper

 

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