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National Museum of American History April 2023 Events

March 22, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT

“Mirror, Mirror: Reflections of America in Disney Parks” Albert H. Small Documents GalleryThird Floor, EastNote New Date: Opens April 28, 2023, Closes March 2024This exhibit explores how Disney theme parks serve as locations of public memory, their relationship to stories of American history, and how the parks and the public are both adapting to new understandings of the American experience by complicating historical narratives. Our understanding of American history doesn’t just come from the classroom. The places we visit, the media we consume, and the experts we listen to all tell their own stories about history. The Walt Disney Company has been telling historical stories for decades, and as time and values have changed, Disney theme parks have changed in response. As important locations for American public memory, the narrative presented at the Disney theme parks both represents and shapes larger conversations about the American Experience. Through objects, images, maps and more, this exhibit will look at how Disney and the public are in conversation to create the national narrative of today and the future. CLOSING Last Chance to See:“Discovery and Revelation”Closes March 30, 2023Nicholas F. and Eugenia Taubman GallerySecond Floor, West WingOne of the most significant factors in the development of spiritual traditions in the United States has been the interaction of religious ideas and communities with the scientific and technological advances that have shaped every generation. his exhibition will look at the intersections of religion and science from three centuries of American history, beginning with a 1721 controversy concerning smallpox and Puritan notions of divine judgement, and ending with encounters of technology and belief in the digital age. Artifacts on view will be drawn from across the museum and range from medicine and science objects related to the work of the theologian-chemist Joseph Priestley; technology collections related to Samuel Morse and his telegraph as well as objects illustrating recent research into religion and the brain. Objects on loan from other Smithsonian museums include a portrait of Henrietta Lacks and a letter written by Galileo; the National Library of Medicine is loaning 18th century pamphlets and Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod is on loan from the Franklin Institute.

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PROGRAMS Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks OrchestraJazzed About Art Jazz Appreciation MonthBaird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural HistoryApril 1; 7 p.m. April is Jazz Appreciation Month and to kick off the annual worldwide celebration of jazz, the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra offers a soundtrack filled with rhythm, texture, and color as it showcases the work of prominent 20th–century visual artists including William Sharp, John Fenton, and Romare Bearden. “Be-Bop” by Dizzy Gillespie, “Crying and Singing” by McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, and “Kingdom of Not” by Sun Ra are among the musical selectionsPurchase tickets here: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/sjmo-jazzed-about-artMembers $20; Nonmembers $25 “Quartets of Mozart, Bartok & Beethoven”Stradivarius and Amati Saturday Concert Series, Smithsonian Chamber Music SocietyNicholas and Eugenia Taubman Hall of MusicApril 1 & 2; 7:30 p.m.The Axelrod String Quartet will be joined by guest violinist Mark Fewer in a presentation of Mozart’s Quartet in G Major, K387; Bartók’s: Quartet No. 1, Op. 7; and Beethoven’s Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1, performing on two magnificent sets of instruments, one made by Antonio Stradivari and the other made by his teacher Nicoló Amati.Purchase tickets here:Saturday:https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/scms-axelrod-quartet-sat-1P0770Sunday: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/scms-axelrod-quartet-sun-1P0773Members $27; Nonmembers $35Innovative Lives: Amy Prieto and Sunil CherianApril 12, 2023, 4–5 pmNote: This is a Free, Virtual On-line ProgramFort Collins, Colorado inventors and entrepreneurs Amy Prieto and Sunil Cherian will explore the role of “place,” including geography, resources, talent and community support, and how location can play a role in fostering invention and innovation. Both are featured in the Lemelson Center’s “Places of Invention” exhibition which is on view through late summer 2023. Prieto, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Prieto Battery and Cherian, founder and CEO of Spirae, have based their renewable energy companies in Fort Collins. A Prieto battery prototype is on view in the exhibition while audiences can learn more about Cherian’s work through an interactive video.Register at:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovative-lives-amy-prieto-and-sunil-cherian-tickets-539574861937“Quartets of Haydn, Britten and Beethoven”Stradivarius and Amati Saturday Concert Series, Smithsonian Chamber Music SocietyNicholas and Eugenia Taubman Hall of MusicApril 29 & 30; 7:30 p.m.The Axelrod String Quartet, Marc Destrubé, James Dunham, and Kenneth Slowik with guest violinist Joseph Puglia will present Haydn’s Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2, “Fifths;” Britten’s Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36; and Beethoven’s Quartet in F Major, Op. 135 performing on two magnificent sets of instruments, one made by Antonio Stradivari and the other made by his teacher Nicoló Amati.Purchase tickets here:Saturday: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/scms-axelrod-quartet-sat-1P0771Sunday: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/scms-axelrod-quartet-sun-1P0774Members $27; Nonmembers $35

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March 22, 2023
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