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of invention; advertising, marketing, and entrepreneurship; commercial visual ephemera (postcards, greeting cards); American music (sheet music, jazz) and musical instruments. These, and a wide range of other subjects, are documented in business records, personal papers, and extensive holdings of motion picture film, video and sound recordings, historical photographs, and oral histories.
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was dedicated to the museum on June 2, 1969. In 1984, the museum moved the work to a site closer to
Constitution Avenue until July 2013, when conservators removed it for restoration. The sculpture returned to its original site in November 2014, and sits in the midst of a re-created reflecting pool.
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America; politics and
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National Mall on all three floors and new interactive features to the exhibits. The first
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History and Technology within the United States National Museum; it became the National Museum of History and Technology in 1969 and the National Museum of American
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Calder's original plan for the sculpture envisioned it surrounded by water jets, but architects and engineers of the site determined that the fountain would be challenging to maintain and the water spray would hasten deterioration of the metal.
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American ideals and include the Albert Small Documents Gallery featuring rotating exhibits. From November 21, 2008, through January 4, 2009, an original copy of the
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became the new director. He retired from the post in May 2018 and was succeeded by Anthea M. Hartig who was previously chief executive of the
California Historical Society.
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