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EVERYTHING SMITHSONIAN Shop with the Smithsonian Catalogue Call 800-322-0344 or visit SmithsonianStore.com to order. The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies offers a take-home museum experience at SmithsonianEducation.org, with quizzes, activity pages, games, interactives and links to kid-friendly exhibit sites. The Smithsonian Institution Libraries with a collection of 1.5 million volumes and more than 400,000 pieces of historical trade literature are a vital part of the Smithsonian’s research, exhibition and educational enterprise. Visit the Libraries’ Galaxy of Knowledge Web site at www.sil.si.edu. SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL On the National Mall, enjoy music, song, dance, crafts, story telling, June 25-29, July 2-6, daily, 11 to 5:30; evening events begin at 6. Featured 2008 festival programs are: “Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon” “NASA: Fifty Years and Beyond” “Texas: A Celebration of Music, Food, and Wine.” DISCOVERY THEATER Housed in the S. Dillon Ripley International Gallery, the theater offers the best in live performing arts for young people. Each season more than 30 performances feature puppets, music, theater, storytelling, dance, traditional and heritage arts and cutting-edge science for groups and families. Visit www.DiscoveryTheater.org or call 202-633-8700 for information and reservations. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings supports cultural diversity through the documentation and preservation of music from cultures around the world, children’s music, Americana and poetry. Visit www.folkways.si.edu and its companion Web site, Smithsonian Global Sound, offering downloads, audio samples and more at www.globalsound.org. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) showcases 40 to 50 exhibitions in cities across the nation every year. Look for a SITES event at a museum or public center near you at www.sites.si.edu. Don’t miss SITES’ new exhibition, “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World” at the S. Dillon Ripley International Gallery. The traveling exhibition “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World,” opens in Washington, D.C. July 12. Smithsonian Affiliate Museums Since 1996, the Smithsonian has established partnerships with more than 150 cultural institutions nationwide and in Panama and Puerto Rico. To learn more, go to www.affiliations.si.edu. SMITHSONIAN MUSEUMS IN NEW YORK CITY Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Call 212-849-8400 for hours, fees and location, or visit www.cooperhewitt.org. The George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian is a center of new thinking about Native cultures. Open daily from 10 to 5 and on Thursdays until 8. Call 212-514-3700 or visit www.AmericanIndian.si.edu. PHOTO BY JOHN E. BARRETT. © THE MUPPETS STUDIO, LLC. 28 www.goSmithsonian.com http://SmithsonianStore.com http://www.sil.si.edu http://www.folkways.si.edu http://www.globalsound.org http://www.sites.si.edu http://www.DiscoveryTheater.org http://www.affiliations.si.edu http://www.cooperhewitt.org http://www.AmericanIndian.si.edu http://www.goSmithsonian.com

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goSmithsonian - June 2008 Contents Visitor Information Smithsonian Institution Building—The Castle The S. Dillon Ripley International Gallery Dining Guide Donald W. Reynolds Center Smithsonian American Art Museum National Portrait Gallery National Air and Space Museum The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Discovery Theater, SITES, Folklife Festival and more National Museum of American History Map of the National Mall National Museum of Natural History National Museum of the American Indian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery/Asian Art Freer Gallery of Art/Asian and American Art Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Contemporary and Modern Art National Museum of African Art Renwick Gallery/American Art National Postal Museum Anacostia Community Museum National Zoological Park

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