Week of Events
Create with Me: Automobiles and Color Wheels!
Create with Me: Automobiles and Color Wheels!
Explore the exhibition LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting. Afterwards, paint with toy cars. Members, free; nonmembers, $4. Reservations recommended.
Films on Friday: The Great Moment (1944)
Films on Friday: The Great Moment (1944)
Directed by Preston Sturges, this biographical film is based on the book Triumph over Pain, by René Fülöp-Miller, and tells the story of Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, a nineteenth-century Boston dentist who discovered the use of ether for general anesthesia. Filmed in 1942 but not released until two years later, it marked the end of a remarkable string of critical…
Museum Day
Museum Day
Join us for Museum Day, an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. Download your free ticket online at www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday.