the room near the entrance contains remains of james smithson who never in his life visited the united states. smithsonian council curator has worked in the castle 39 years. now he delights showing historic items not open to public on upper floors mostly used tore staff and executive offices. like this desk that belonged to john quincy adams. it didn't start out as a desk. >> upright piano made in london. >> of course security there has a picture of what the piano originally looked like. >> these are floors. the public doesn't get to come up here. >> that's right. >> only special tours. >> special tours and some behind the scenes tours on the weekends. >> in one conference room charles lindbergh's 1927 leather helmet right next to 1965 gemini space helmet. basketball great michael jordan's 1996 jersey shows it's not all ancient history. >> you work in the building that is not filled with history but stuffed with history. do you see it? >> yeah. you know, the problem is that the smithsonian is located in 14 museums. so there's no way you can see everything even in 40 years. >> but he sa

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walter: give a shout out to james smithson who was a pembroke college alumni. >> thank you. i am a health writer who is also a poet. and i will be sending you a poem. david: i will write that down. send some bio. on the right side is a little bio. we will never know, you can make a lot of stuff up. [laughter] >> thank you very much. i want to say, my kids really t a lot out of the smithsonian when they were growing up. i think it is not necessary to really think about how to package, combine arts and sciences. just putting it there, someone here mentioned it would be good to put more about medicine in the smithsonian. putting more of the arts and sciences next to one another, i think people make the connection. i have noticed in the past years there are some literary magazines that have been founded at medical schools or associations like bellevue. they have a literary magazine. cuny has a magazine. ma i think take poetry. all of it is a great way to ecome part of d ecompartmentalize it. david: they will have a description, i don't know if you've seen it, it is fascinating.