Visitor Center Review: In a Grand Old Hall, a Grab Bag of History
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Re-opening after a $16.5 million restoration, the Federal Hall National Memorial in Lower Manhattan is a reminder of what a center was once like.
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&quot;You are entering the past,&quot; the sign says. &quot;No cellphones.&quot; Inside, the wooden floor creaks in spots and the aisles are crammed with everything from souvenir coffee mugs to toothpaste. There's even homemade fudge.
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With downloadable books and information portals, the new reading room is anywhere and everywhere.
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Amateur historians and academics can take advantage of a wealth of archived data on the web.
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Yale University, famous for its Gothic buildings, is showing off a newly restored jewel that marked the beginning of its modern era.
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Like many modern museums, the newest U.S. tourist attraction includes some awesome exhibits -- roaring dinosaurs and a life-sized ship.
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The Arthur M. Sackler Galleryâs show glows like a treasury, radiates like a compass and seems as rich with potential information as the World Wide Web.
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The exuberant forms and fluid interiors of a group of new concert halls make the great halls of the late 19th century seem fusty by comparison.
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When Rob Nieweg of the National Trust for Historic Preservation toured the abandoned west campus of old St. Elizabeths Hospital a few years ago, he was eager to explore Hitchcock Hall, the theater for the nation's first federal mental institution. As Nieweg waited to get his bearings in the dingy...
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To appreciate this city, look up. Otherwise the very buildings that close in to create the Old World appeal may be too close to yield their secrets.
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A collection kept under lock and key in Dallas for 40 years includes documents and items of memorabilia.
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History smells if it doesn't exactly stink. In recent days, as the family is away in Pakistan, I have been amassing old books.
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The Modern's galleries are an eloquent reaffirmation of the enduring beauty of the museum's historic account of modernism.
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ÂTesoros/Treasures/Tesouros,Â now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a rich cultural collision for anyone interested in a big dose of worldliness.
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The local search site lets you navigate through cities with businesses paying to show tours of the insides of the buildings.
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&#39;I hope we have accomplished creating an entirely new museum, rooted in the old museum, where the collection shines as never before.
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THE WORLD&#39;S TOP library is taking shape, and no one will need a library card or clean hands to riffle through old manuscripts.