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At 75, Still Stepping Out of Line
A show at the New-York Historical Society celebrating Ludwig Bemelmans’s classic book “Madeline” is as much a tribute to its schoolgirl heroine as it is to her creator.
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Security Secrets, Dated but Real
The National Cryptologic Museum, which is the National Security Agency’s public face, opens up about American cryptography — but only that of the past.
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The remodeled First World War galleries at the Imperial War Museum in London prefer to convey the experience of the conflict rather than explain the forces behind it.
View ArticleAmong the Ancient Stones, Magic as Potent as Ever
How do you renovate ancient stone arrangements? At Stonehenge, that meant reconfiguring a highway and building a new visitor center.
View ArticlePunch Lines, Reverberating in the Ruins
An exhibition of photographs at the Yeshiva University Museum depicts the tattered remains of Catskills hotels where many Jews vacationed in the postwar period.
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Great Job on the Railroad. Now Go Back to China.
Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society and the Museum of Chinese in America examine cultural identity and history.
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Understanding Wasn’t Mutual
“Nation to Nation,” focusing on treaties, indicates a new, more historically serious direction for exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Obsessive Visions on Display
Collectors with all-consuming urges have built some of the most idiosyncratic museums, monuments to their determination to possess certain objects.
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When Mother Nature Stops Being Maternal
“Nature’s Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters” examines the immense forces wielded by earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes and hurricanes.
View ArticleTuring’s Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
The museum at Bletchley Park, the World War II British code-breaking center, sheds light on methods and people, including Alan Turing.
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