"Yesterday's Tomorrow" Opens at NMAH

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Summary

"Yesterday's Tomorrow: Past Visions of America's Future" opens in the National Museum of American History's new temporary exhibition hall. The exhibition was produced by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and displayed more than 300 objects "to show how people in the past have predicted the future."

Subject

  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
  • Smithsonian Institution) Traveling Exhibition Service
  • Yesterday's Tomorrow: Past Visions of America's Future (Exhibition) (1984: Washington, D.C.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1984. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, p. 421.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

August 9, 1984

Topic

  • Traveling exhibitions
  • Exhibit openings
  • Exhibitions

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