History has its eye...
Jul. 23rd, 2024 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tbutlerThis was the first time I've visited the Smithsonian's American History museum - it was closed when I visited DC 20 years ago - and I was impressed. It didn't feel like one museum, it felt like an umbrella covering several different and not terribly connected museums; some nice small ones, some world-class in their own right.
There's transportation, one of the world-class:
(The Tucker Tornado, notorious enough to be the subject of its own movie.)
Entertainment:
(Zero Mostel's costume from Fiddler on the Roof.)
History, of course...
...and weird mixes. (This was in the transportation area, but could have gone in entertainment as well.)
(Not to mention the gunboat from the prior entry.)
It was... well, gobsmacking. Some of the areas were more impressive than others (I loved the concept of the exhibit with a 2-story house dating back 200 years and covering various people who lived there over the years, tying it to significant parts of the era they lived in; but it wasn't as involving in practice as I'd hoped it would be). But there was just so much there, and most of it world-class. Yeah. This is what the Smithsonian stands for.
There's transportation, one of the world-class:
(The Tucker Tornado, notorious enough to be the subject of its own movie.)
Entertainment:
(Zero Mostel's costume from Fiddler on the Roof.)
History, of course...
...and weird mixes. (This was in the transportation area, but could have gone in entertainment as well.)
(Not to mention the gunboat from the prior entry.)
It was... well, gobsmacking. Some of the areas were more impressive than others (I loved the concept of the exhibit with a 2-story house dating back 200 years and covering various people who lived there over the years, tying it to significant parts of the era they lived in; but it wasn't as involving in practice as I'd hoped it would be). But there was just so much there, and most of it world-class. Yeah. This is what the Smithsonian stands for.
