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Description of Pictures: The National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum reopened on September 18 after Covid-19 closed them on March 14.
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Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.
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SIPGBU_200314_01.JPG: All of the museums were closed as the Covid-19 crisis spread to the capitol.
SIPGBU_200314_06.JPG: Temporary Closure
Effective March 14, the Smithsonian museums in Washington, DC, including the National Zoo, and in New York City, have temporarily closed to support the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The Smithsonian's priority is to protect the safety and health of its staff, volunteers, and visitors.
Please visit si.edu for updates on our operating status.
SIPGBU_200918_09.JPG: Timed-entry passes are required for entry
Reserve your passes online
or visit www.si.edu/tickets
SIPGBU_200918_12.JPG: Line Starts Here
2 people permitted at a time
OR
Limit to one household or group at a time
SIPGBU_201015_01.JPG: During Covid, guest services workers operated remotely to answer your questions.
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Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11.
Trump's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here. As the chant goes -- Hey, hey, POTUS-A; how many folks did you kill today? The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year!
The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995.
Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.