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For Hollywood’s Smithsonian, a Battle Trumps an Escape

In 2009, 20th-Century Fox was working on the film “Night at the Museum: Escape from the Smithsonian.” But why would anyone want to escape from the museums?

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A Skydiving Photographer Reveals Almost All, but for One Secret

Having made more than 1,000 skydives, some 600 with a camera, daredevil adventurer Andy Keech has hot-dogged it with the best of adrenaline junkies.

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A Unique Frame of Mind

Architect Tom Kundig thinks outside the box to reinvent the notion of “home”

A LEAGUE APART

It’s all about baseball on Sunday, June 1 from 2 to 5 p.m., at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 801 K Street, NW, at Mount Vernon Square

Fakes are an all too real part of the museum world. “There are always artists capable of making and selling things that seem old,” says anthropologist Jane MacLaren Walsh.

Why the Smithsonian Has a Fake Crystal Skull

The Natural History Museum’s quartz cranium highlights the epic silliness of the new Indiana Jones movie

Thomas Alva Edison by Alfred S. Seer Engraver; Copy after: Mathew B. Brady, Color woodcut poster, c. 1878

All in a Word

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Interview with G. Wayne Clough

Smithsonian Institution’s 12th Secretary discusses his new role, his distinguished career in education and his favorite artifact

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A Dream to Remember

At Hirshhorn exhibit, “the cinematic is in the way we perceive the world, in the way we speak, in the way we dream.”

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This Sloth is No Slacker

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