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The Institution marks its 150th anniversary with traveling exhibition America's Smithsonian. Millions flock to see it during its 12-city tour. Treasures on display include Dorothy's ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz, an experimental 1948 Tucker automobile, Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet, an Apollo spacecraft, and a farm worker's altar made for activist César Chávez.
2010
Following a devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Smithsonian works with local experts to form a Cultural Recovery Project. The team saves more than 35,000 cultural artworks and artifacts. The project marks increased efforts by the Smithsonian to save cultures endangered by conflict and natural disasters.
2016
The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens to critical acclaim. In the words of founding director Lonnie G. Bunch III, "there are few things as powerful and as important as a people, as a nation that is steeped in its history. |