Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Frank Taylor examining two models of ancient Chinese war chariots, made in Peking, China from fragments which were dated to about 500 B.C., 1927, by Underwood and Underwood, Washington, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 22A, Folder 52, Negative Number: 83-2075."][/caption]
Description: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, recreated in miniature with office supplies. [via Colossal]A new project, Great 78, seeks to preserve 78rpm records. [via Internet Archive]Nice! NYPL card holders can now stream movies from the Criterion Collection. [via Gothamist] A floating museum makes its debut this month in Chicago! [via Timeout]Sound maps of protest from the last 26 years.
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.
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