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AT THE MUSEUMS
Stories from the institutions that preserve and interpret our history and culture.
Exhibit A Crime and punishment may be a gray area, but it's painted black and white in D.C.
By Emily Maloney
The Museum of Contraception and Abortion Vienna's Museum of Contraception and Abortion, which Austrian schoolkids visit on field trips.
By Patti McCracken
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
Le Musée du Fumeur A visit to a smoking museum in Paris, just as the French kick the habit.
By Rolf Potts
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