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Past Exhibitions

Let’s Get It Right: Work Incentive Posters of the 1920s

Closed March 24, 2019
Detail of Unlce Sam poster

Advertising War

Closed February 10, 2019
City of Hope

City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign

Closed February 3, 2019
detail from "On the Wire" by Harvey Thomas Dunn, France, 1918

Artist Soldiers

Closed November 12, 2018
Detail of postcard depicting the Sunken Gardens in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park

Cultivating America’s Gardens

Closed September 16, 2018

T is for Television

Closed September 4, 2018
The First Lady of Song: Ella Fitzgerald at 100

Ella Fitzgerald at 100

Closed July 15, 2018
The Jefferson Bible

Religion in Early America

Closed June 3, 2018
Solar power plant

Solar on the Line

Closed March 4, 2018
detail of the LEGO Statue of Liberty in the 2 West Preview display

2 West Preview Case

Closed January 7, 2018

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