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IMAX® Theater Film Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag Surpasses 150 Million Viewers Worldwide
Film Has Reached Over 1 Million Viewers at the Smithsonian IMAX[R] Theaters Alone, Making It the 2nd-Highest Grossing Aviation Film Ever at the Smithsonian EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- According to Smithsonian V.P. of IMAX[R] Theater Operations, Toby Mensforth, the dynamic Giant Screen film "Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag" has...
Autonomous Volkswagen Touareg "Stanley," First-Ever Winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge, Comes Home to Silicon Valley for One Last Showing
Visit to The Tech Museum of Innovation Is Last Stop Before Stanley Makes Its Permanent Home at the Smithsonian SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Stanley, the history-making autonomous vehicle developed by the Stanford Racing Team, returns home to Silicon Valley after a global victory tour. Showcased at museums from South...
Museum of American Finance Appoints Makovsky + Company
NEW YORK -- Makovsky + Company, one of the nation's largest independent public relations and investor relations firms, today announced that it has been retained by the Museum of American Finance, a Smithsonian affiliate, to manage the communications for its grand opening at 48 Wall Street. Kristin Aguilera, Communications...
Funding of portrait criticized
WASHINGTON AP -- The recently retired director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself and selected a non-Indian artist to create it, a newspaper reported Friday. The portrait of W. Richard West Jr. by New York...
Sealaska Heritage Institute
Tlingit artist Doug Kevin Chilton of Juneau will carve a full-size traditional cedar canoe for display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The project, commissioned by Sealaska Heritage Institute, will be crafted at the Sealaska Plaza in Juneau. Project organizers hope to paddle the finished...
Fighter prepares to land at Combat Air Museum
By Steve Fry THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A Russian-made fighter aircraft won't be displaying its speed Thursday when it cruises into the Combat Air Museum at Forbes Field. In fact, it won't be moving forward at all. Sporting the name "Ivanka" as nose art,...
National Museum of American History Acquires Wireless Picturephone Prototypes
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Valeska Hilbig, +1-202-633-3129, or Melinda Machado, +1- 202-633-3129, both of Smithsonian National Museum of American HistoryWASHINGTON, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History joined with inventor Daniel A. Henderson to acquire two prototypes and related documentation for a pioneering wireless picturephone technology developed...
National Museum of American History Acquires Wireless Picturephone Prototypes.
WASHINGTON, October 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History joined with inventor Daniel A. Henderson to acquire two prototypes and related documentation for a pioneering wireless picturephone technology developed in 1993. Henderson recently was awarded six U.S. patents for innovation...
Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum celebrates 40th Anniversary
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More than 200 guests came out to help celebrate the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum's 40th Anniversary gala on the museum's grounds in Washington D.C. The event, which carried the theme "Celebrating a History, Building a Future," paid tribute to the nation's first federally funded community museum...
Famous fossil heads to U.S. for controversial tour
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world's most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a U.S. tour that some experts say is a dangerous gamble with an irreplaceable relic. Although the fossil known as...


