Stories from the institutions that preserve and interpret our history and culture.
By various authors. |
Exhibit A Crime and punishment may be a gray area, but it's painted black and white in D.C.
By Emily Maloney
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The Museum of Contraception and Abortion Vienna's Museum of Contraception and Abortion, which Austrian schoolkids visit on field trips.
By Patti McCracken
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Likeness of Beings Madame Tussauds brings its wax celebrities to a new branch in Washington. Our correspondent visited J. Edgar Hoover, Abraham Lincoln, and Marion Barry to find out why we still love wax museums.
By Jesse Smith
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Le Musée du Fumeur A visit to a smoking museum in Paris, just as the French kick the habit.
By Rolf Potts
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Creating a Truth About half of the United States does not believe in evolution. Our correspondent visits a new, $27 million creationism museum in Kentucky, built just for them.
By Jesse Smith
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