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Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s, on view from April 2001 through January 2002, revisited an American phenomenon: the popular kits that turned ordinary people into leisure-time painters. Hobbyists were content to color inside the lines, filling numbered spaces on a canvas... |
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A popular new website invites virtual visitors to wander through the Museum's storage areas for a glimpse of objects they can't see on public display. Launched on August 15, 2001, HistoryWired: A Few of Our Favorite Things attracted more than 180,000 visitors in its first two months... |
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Two-and-one-half years after intensive examination and conservation of the Star-Spangled Banner began, Museum conservators concluded that the aging flag is too fragile to be hung vertically for public display. A 20-page State of the Flag Report issued on Flag Day, June 14, 2001, explains conservators’ findings about the flag’s condition, illustrates the conservation treatment, and describes the history of the flag... |
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These acquisitions are examples of the 30,663 objects that the Museum collected in fiscal year 2001... |
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