the national museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862 and known as the army medical museum and the mission was to collect specimens of morbid anatomy and send them to washington to study to improve the care of the soldier. at the time of the civil war the museum's staff were doing the business of lessons learned. they were trying to understand the nature of battlefield medicine, and trauma and share it with their counterparts on the battlefield. this museum and its collection started during the war and in the early days, the museum was housed in the surgeon general's office. the first artifacts were on a shelf and in a building that we know as the riggs bank building near the white house. but wasn't until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first long-term residence and moved into fords theater before moving to what became the national mall in a building built in the 1880 that that we familiarly call the old red brick. a building that is no longer there, but was in the location where the gallery is today. and the muse

the contemporary jewish museum has always had this vision to break the notion of what a museum is. can you talk more about when people think about the way in which art influences one's life and that's such a vast conversation, but what does this represent in that world on the cutting edge? >> one thing off the top of my head, i have to say this, traditionally long before i got there, the museum has had a major commitment to education. we have won many national prizes for the quality and commitment we have to children and young adults in the museum. it's not a tag. it's essential to what we do. then in terms of the adult programming, it's very eclectic. we have exhibitions for people for whom their jewish identity is central, and we have other exhibitions that have jewish themes but nonjewish artists, nonjewish artists looking at jewish themes. it's really a tremendous program that lori has given me the leeway to build. >> we are going to take another break in a moment. it seems one of the distinctions about this kind of exhibit is that in say a traditional way a curator will choose

thanks to the art museum, the cleveland museum of art and dr. griswold relatively new on the job for their contributions his to our community. i ask unanimous consent for the following remarks to be a different place in the world. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: madam president, let me start with a story. more than 15 years ago a friend and i -- i met with friends, i flew to south texas at my own expense. i wanted to see how the north american free trade agreement was working. my first year in congress 20 plus years ago in the house of representatives i helped to lead the opposition to the north american free trade agreement i stood up to a president of my own party, president clinton who i think was wrong on the north american free trade agreement, since then i've disagreed with president bush, a president not of my party on his trade policy. and i wanted to see four or five years after nafta was implemented what it looked like what went on along the u.s.-mexican border. so as i said i flew to south texas, rented a car with

he brought the british museum which was a venerable institution 20 years ago to the forefront of museums worldwide. it's the second most visited museum in the world after the louvre. also he is a great communicator. he does podcast for radio, he does tv series. he writes incredibly best-selling books. he is kind of all multi-targeting genius. >> a stellar track record, evidently. so he has something to back him up. is he the right person for this job? he is not a german. is he the right person? >> it's going to be a difficult job. the museum is scheduled to open in 2019, and no one knows exactly what it's going to be. it's going to be a world museum but what is it? no one has really delivered a reasonable concept for the time being. if there is someone, maybe he will be the person. he has two years now to develop the concept and to bring in some interesting stuff, and put -- we had international visitors to the museums in germany. we have international collections. >> this is something he has indicated already he would like to change, bring german culture to a wider international audienc

to the museum so on his death in 2003, it was willed to the museum and now it's part of our permanent collection. we're starting with a piece made by tarpley. it was manufactured here in greensboro and is one of the most rare and unique pieces in the murphy collection. you can see the name stamped on here. he was the gentleman who apply and received a patent for this design. it was his idea for the dine of the rifle and in combination with an existing firm that was ultimately resulting in the manufacturing of this piece. this is number 380. that's the serial number. it's unusual in its appearance. it's missing a wooden fore stock and almost every other rifle has a piece of wood that goes along here. this particular design omitted that. that was one of the design flaws. they got too hot to handle. they weren't user friendly. relatively few numbers of these were made, less than 200. today less than 20 are known to be in existence. dr. murphy had four in his collection, which we have here. this next piece is a rifle that was manufactured by minute hall jones and gardener. this particular

in the museum's collection from the 1490's to present day. so the 1880's are the worst of it where the wood pulp content is high and they are as old as dirt. they are beginning to crumble and yellow and they are brittle and they are sometimes really hard to salvage. the papers here still have that nice high rag cotton content. they look good. they do not age in the same way. the acid content is lower. that is what is the case with your newspaper today. it's very acidic and it has the capacity to age rapidly. you let your papers hang around for a couple months and they are already yellowing. it is the same with the papers in the 1880's. six of the seven editions are from the museum's permanent collection. in the course of research and being in touch with scholars to run across a collector who had the edition we did not have. it was a known edition, reviewed by scholars and part of the historic record, but we did not happen to have one. and that is the 3:30 edition. we were able to in the index end the exhibit just as the "new york herald" ende

the museum is on the site of the national hotel which is the hotel were both stated the night before -- where booth stated before he committed the horrible crime. this is the breaking news, the flash moment, the president has been shot. interestingly it views the word assassination at the time because it meant a surprise violent attack on someone. it did not mean that it resulted in death, it has come to mean that over the years. one of the things that i hope people comprehend as they move through the exhibit is that they get the understanding of how people at the time were getting news. this is really a moment in time where everything had come together. the complete proliferation of the telegraph, the incredible squadron of reporters available coming off of the war, the capacity of the new york herald to move so swiftly because of the speed of the presses, to be able to push the news out this rapidly. to the best of our knowledge this is the first time all seven editions of "the herald" have been together since before they were printed and via sesquicentennial assassination -- and t

you're at the historical museum. we're going to talk about our dolley madison collection. dolley was the wife of our fourth president james madison and probably one of our most popular first ladies. she was born may 20th 1768 here in gillford county to quaker family and lived an american life which took her to become one of the most popular figures in early american history. she had seven brothers and sisters. after a stay at a farm here in gillford county they moved to virginia. eventually moving to philadelphia when dolley was about 15. it's there she married her first husband, a young attorney, and had two sons and experienced the tragedy of loss during the yellow fever epidemic when she lost her son and husband and her inlaws. she moved then later to the washington city where at the age of 25 she was introduced to james madison and she was married. we know that doll lee had an outgoing personality and sort of made up for the shyness of her husband during his presidencies. in this new capital city she hold receptions often called squeezes. she felt that the dignitaries a

the museum expects to triple its attendance in the new location. >> it's been a long time since an american-- they got it right. and i think this museum gets it right. there's space for the art, space for the people space to stop looking at the art and look outside at this amazing city. >> reporter: so while america may be hard to see, the whitney's collection has never been more accessible. kristen saloomey al jazeera, new york. >>> artists from around the world are taking their talons to the streets of mexico city. paining large murielss dur murals on walls around the city. thanks for joining us. i'm randall pinkston. the news continues next live from london. ♪ ♪ cut off from katmandu, and the help they need, we report from rural nepal where entire villages have been flattened. >> look at the damage and right through this area. there is only one home left standing. >> live from london, watching al jazeera at least 15 have been injured as well. >>

we already have established that but for our city's history to have the establishment of the mexican museum part of our history this is important for many, many reaps we honor our community for having the standard ofness and the mission trying to preserve the his with small businesses and preserving displacement we've got something positive going on with the mexican museum and the thousands of historic artifacts are yet to be seen there's a tremendous effort to the for them to make sure they're there for this display and are is a have a development in the core part of this development is triumphs and everything needs to be thank full but thank you to the incredible patience the community with all it's different members trying their best over the years to establish this opportunity now, it's for real the building is beginning and the museum will be an incredible partner at former mayor willie brown i want to especially thank he's not here to wish him happy birthday he's giving me bypassing lip i get to be the lucky mayor to establish things in the city i'm lucky i know the mukts is an incred

the eventually sell it to the ford museum -- for they sell it to henry ford, and it is not at the henry ford museum in michigan. the carriage itself is not a typical carriage. the carriage required a driver you can see the feet of friend. -- you can see that thethe seat up front. so in order to really operate his carriage, you need to have various kinds of servants and staff at your disposal. it is not the fanciest of carriages, but surprising to me, presidents supplied their own vehicle when they became president. the lincoln's actually had three carriages. they would have this for daytime, another carriage that was closed for bad weather, and a third carriage that no one really has a good description of your so we don't really know what that carriage looked like. after the assassination, robert todd lincoln, with mary, starts to dispose of some of the lincoln property. the carriage itself is sold to a doctor in upstate new york, who uses it for his daily rounds. and then eventually, it is sold to the studebaker brothers, who are building a collection of historic carriages. they are ca

the george bush presidential library and museum hosted this event. it's about 90 minutes. >> we say howdy. my apologies to johnson and bush 43 but that's what we do here. welcome to the bush presidential library. i am the director here. we've got to staff members each from the bush presidential library 43, our own presidential library here in college station and the johnson library in austin. since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein -- and barbara klein. christina is the registrar. we have our new archivist and our registrar. what we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three presidential libraries in texas. we are the only state in the country that has three presidential libraries. they will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. if they go too long, they have to leave the stage. hopefully, we will leave a little bit of time at the end. the ideas to leave time at the end for you the audience to maybe ask some questions you have tho

as of 2008, the museum is now managed by the university of tulsa. so it's a wonderful partnership. city-owned museum seeing operated by tulsa's own university of tulsa. that partnership will help actuate the survival, the existence of the museum far into the future. >> throughout the weekend american history tv is featuring tulsa, oklahoma. our cities tour staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more about tulsa and other stops on our tour at www.c-span.org/citiesto her. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> join american history tv on april 9 and 12 for live coverage of ceremonies marking the 150th anniversary of the surrender at appomattox. in april 1865, confederate general robert ely met union general ulysses s grant in the village of appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war -- confederate general robert e lee . we'll be live on april 9 and april 12 as historians including the university of richmond's errors reflect on the last battles and explore the

the george bush presidential library and museum hosted this event. it is about 90 minutes. >> as we say here in texas howdy. my apologies to the people from johnson and bush 43, but that is what we do here. welcome to the bush library. i'm the director here. we have two staff members each from the bush presidential library 43, our own presidential library here in college station and the johnson library in austin. since we are already running a little late, we won't do extensive introductions, but michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj. brooke, one of my former staff is the supervisor archivist at the library in dallas and christina oliver is the registrar. here, we have our newly minted supervisor, deborah wheeler and our registrar. so, what we are going to do tonight is a behind-the-scenes look at some of the treasures at these three presidential libraries in texas. we're the only state in the country with three presidential libraries, so they are going to talk. they have 20 minutes each. i'm going to stand in the back of the auditorium and if they g

carrie: i am the curator at the museum. and we are in our new lincoln exhibit called president lincoln's dad. this exhibit has a tight focus on seven editions of the new york herald which was the most widely circulated newspaper at the time that were published in the 18 hours immediately following lincoln's assassination. it is the minute by minute story of the news as it happened about the assassination of lincoln. one of the ways that we hope people understand not just time but place is through this great map on the floor in the center of the gallery. because we are almost in this building at the epicenter of things. the museum is on the site of the national hotel which is the hotel were both stated the night before -- where booth stated before he committed the horrible crime. you can take a look on the floor of this room after you read through the newspapers and place your safe -- yourself and all the different spots that are being referenced -- the national hotel, the ford theater, the peterson house which is where linco

it's an awesome responsibility for the museum to be the caretaker and the steward of this collection. >> you've been watching c-span cities tour. find out where we're going next online. a quick reminder that every weekend here on c-span3 experience american history tv beginning saturdays at 8:00 a.m. eastern. for more information follow us on twitter. like us on facebook or visit our website at cspan.org/history. join american history tv sunday marking the 150th anniversary of the surrender of appomattox. confederate general robert e. lee met ulysses s. grant. met ulysses s. grant. we'll be live from appomattox courthouse sunday as historians reflect on the lat battles. and explore the legacy of appomattox. we'll take your phone calls for authors david blight and elizabeth barren. live sunday here on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> were you a fan of c-span's first lady series? first ladies is now a book published by public affairs looking inside the personal life of every first lady in american history. based on original interviews with more than 50 preeminent historians and biog

the museum of jewish heritage. ls a stunning revelation live when we return. ♪ ♪ liz: we've got breaking news right now. douglas hughes, the man who piloted that gyrocopter that landed on the capitol grounds has been charged with two offenses. first, with violating national defense airspace. secondly, of operating an unregistered aircraft. an unregistered aircraft. now, this incident wasn't the first time this year that a small aircraft landed on restricted grounds. back in january, a man lost control of his drone, and it landed on the white house lawn. joining us now from washington, dc, scott brenner. so now he's been charged, but right off the bat, we have to ask you as a former faa official, we have to prevent this from happening again. somebody could have a bomb. scott: they could have a bomb. but it's unlikely. the system that is set up in the washington area, and we've had lots of experiences. and we've been able to kind of fix all the initial problems that we had. but it's always been an issue of coordinatio

now it is at the henry ford museum in michigan. the carriage itself is a fairly, not typical carriage. this is a carriage that required a driver. you can see the seat up front. an order to operate this carriage you need to have various kinds of servants at your disposal. it is not the fanciest, but surprising to me, presidents supplied their own vehicles when they became president. the lincolns actually had three carriages. they would have this for daytime. another carriage that was closed for bad weather. and there was a third carriage that no one had a good description of. so we do not know what that carriage looks like. after the assassination, robert todd lincoln with mary decides to dispose of some of the lincoln's property. they carriage itself is sold to a doctor in upstate new york who uses it for his daily rounds. and then eventually it is sold to the studebaker brothers who are building a collection of historic carriages. they were carriage builders before they built an automobile company. it becomes part of the collection

. >>> the whitney museum of modern art has a new home. elle obama will dedicate the new building which opens to the public on friday. kristen saloomey got a preview. >> reporter: love it or hate it the art world is buzzing about the new building. the $422 million glass and steel structure will allow the museum to display more of its extensive collection of modern art from the united states. >> we wanted people to slow down and not just go through the checklist. we wanted them to slow down and look at things. because every culture is far more complex than the media and museums present them. so we wanted to prosent a more layered view. >> reporter: a skultture and hair res founded the place in 1931. but then as now, what defines american art is hard to say. >> i think there's a spirit of openness, and a spirit of understanding the contradictions. this is a very complex country, and i think that if there's one thing many of the artists really zero in on is that. >> reporter: like the united states the works are a melting pot of styles and inf

today, he is at the prado museum, running his hands along el greco's "nobleman." 's one of six reproduced paintings in the exhibition called "touching the prado." >> ( translated ): suddenly, i saw the ruffs. they go all the way up to his ears. i saw them. and what else did i notice? well, how the painting is done. look, this has a different texture than this. >> stewart: gonzaÁlez represents la once, spain's national association for the blind. it's one of the organizations that helped bring this exhibition to the museum. >> ( translated ): i have never been given the chance to touch a painting in a museum, not even in a smaller version of it. so, for me, this is a unique experience. >> stewart: the tactile copies are the result of a special technique called diduÚ, developed in spain by durero studios. diduÚ was first used in a 2010 photo exhibition by a journalist who had lost most of his sight due to illness. the process uses special inks and ultraviolet light to raise parts of the images, allowing the works to be visualized. the prado paid a little more than $6,

brad: the international spy museum has been hugely popular. people are willing to pay to see exhibits like 50 years of james bond villians. >> we've had great visitorship particularly the last few weeks during the spring break period. that is our busiest every year. brad: it's so successful, in fact, that the museum has been looking for a bigger home for years. now, comes word that a possible new location has been identified. l'enfant plaza across the street from the u.s. postal service headquarters. the building will stand on this piece of ground and will be six stories tall and 100,000 square feet. it will feature a ground floor open atrium and a rooftop terrace and room for the spy museum to grow its exhibits. >> we don't really have too much out here so think it would be nice to have something. brad: the spy museum spokesperson cautions it's too early to call it a done deal. >> eventually it's our long term plan to find a more permanent home for the museum. we don't know where that's going to be. we're excited towards the prospects we're wo

kimberly: a record gift for the smithsonian's national museum of natural history. they received $13 million. it is the largest educational gift in the museum's history. whitney also donated a gem on display at the museum. a new stamp honoring maya angelou features a quote that is not hers. "a bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." the line is actually attributed to another point. the forever stamp features and oil portrait of maya angelou. the author come up for what, and civil rights activist died last may at the age of 86. ahead -- big boosts for the blossoms. how long d.c. will benefit from the tour is him. -- from the tourism. and the forecast is coming u kimberly: we cannot get enough of the weather today. tomorrow? eileen: even better, less wind and warmer. it will be a little cool in the morning, but great outdoors. not only at the tidal basin, but people were also at the winery. we have a weatherbug camera at the there'll local winery. beautiful sunset and look how green everything looks. it finally looks and feels like

." >>> officials in delaware city cut the ribbon on a new museum. the local history museum is two years in the making delaware city mayor stanley green and other officials are on hand and the museum provides a look back at the city with fossils and artifacts and admission is free. spring is in bloom thanks to the horticultureal society, this is the west plaza of the comcast center. it features pansies and it will be on display here tomorrow and then the flowers will be used at beautification projects at two schools. it's located at the k-9 headquarters in northeast philadelphia, police say it's econventional for their four-legged officers to stay in shape and it replaces previous equipment that was old and out dated. >>> if you had one word to describe the flyers future it could be uncertain. >> craig berube has not been fired but also not given a vote of confidence by the front office. gm, hextall is still making up his mind. berube has a year left on his contract remains employed. the to men did not talk since sunday. hextall says it's time will co

we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home. >> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences, there is a very large collection of preserved and live specimens, which are the evidence about evolution. we have the assassin spiders which are spiders that exclusively kill and eat other spiders. they are under the microscope here. research done and the california academy's i rhinology lab suggests that the assassin spiders have been doing this for over 150 million years. this glassed in room is a real scientific laboratory, and the people in that room are preparing specimens of

tourists are out here and the local businesses love this because while the tourists can't get into the museums they're not going anywhere. this is national cherry blossom week and also spring break. this is a big deal to the city local economy. coming up at 6:00 we'll take you to northeast washington and the campus. we were there covering an all together different story when the power went out. >> looking forward to that. >> they won't forget this at all. >> the pictures of the power outages from our area are really

diane: and the museums have since reopened. the spokesperson for the smithsonian institution says once the power was restored there was a bit of a delay reopening today because you had to make sure that their security and fire alarms were back up and running to go. we're live on the southwest part of the mall, diane cho, abc 7 news. alison: thank you. and also tonight, the bethesda metro station remains closed at this hour because of an escalator outage. metro says the outage was caused by those earlier power problems. right now, red line trains are bypassing the bethesda stop. riders can use shuttle buses or go to the medical center stop instead. leon? leon: senate minority leader harry reid admits he is blind in his right eye. this after a series accident at his home in nevada. he is getting better every day. two weeks ago, reid announced he will not be seeking re-election after his current term is over. alison: proposed contract for the d.c. jail population sparked a rally today. supporters want the d.c. council to approve th

all of our 99.8% of the collection is online which is unusual for a museum. but no offers in terms of a digital engagement when visitors come. i know the met has fabulous programs. >> reporter: a goal is to offer visitors new ways to think about art, something the counter exhibit or tried to do. on display at the gallery at the moment is the works of new zealand artist billy athol in the 1960 who collaborated with warhol. he believes it is becoming easier for young artists to except with the audience. >> when i started there was - the museums and the gallery. and, you know once a year if you are lucky, you might get a show or a group show. it was traditional. i think we have gone past that. auckland's gallery considers itself a global pioneer, especially in its ability to evolve in adapt to an ever-changing society. a reason it's about to join a select in new york >>> a reminder that there's more world news on the website. aljazeera.com. >> i'm russell beard in barbados meeting the islanders who are buiding a green ecomomy.

the lights disappeared. during her address. smithsonian museums along the mall and elsewhere went dark and were evacuated and the power company pepco says it was all because of an equipment failure at a substation in southern charles county maryland that caused a fire a transmission line to fail and a voltage struck which in buildings in the city, power systems automatically switched to backup power and buildings went mainly dark. >> that's why in some locations people saw what appeared to be a power outage. it was really the system switching over from the primary system over to the backup system. horace: at the ceremony at the warner also attended by first lady michelle obama, nobody panicked and a lot of people thought it was part of the show. >> i thought it was planned. >> power outage from here up to maryland. >> really? wow. horace: and the pepco spokesman said it cost a powerful ripple effect from southern charles county as the power came here to d.c. also, another impact here was that the -- there was the calvert cliffs nuclear power plant

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this is the first step in moving the museum from h and f streets to a new location. the washington business journal reports the museum is interested in the site near l'enfant plaza. but the museum tells abc 7 news that's just one potential new home. alison: all right. let's get a check of how traffic is moving this afternoon. jamie sullivan is here with an update. hi jamie. jaim -- jamie: not too bad this afternoon. we have some congestion in the typical spots. starring off heading outbound on 395, 38 miles per hour. once you get past the pentagon we start to see some of that flowing. as we move to talk about 295 leaving d.c. crossing the 11th street bridge heading northbound, about 25 miles per hour. and then we're in the red for you working southbound approaching the capital beltway. as we move now to talk about the crash, this accident will be on the outer loop of the beltway at 202 near landover road. you can see some red and yellow behind us. let's take a live look near marlboro road to give you a good idea of how slow we are. traffic is inching along. this is on

they do it in the museum all the time. it's fine part of contemporary life. wanted to unlock a slightly more sinister access to all of that. it's kept by someone. one of the most interesting phenomena that we looked at was seeing how do you keep the phones secure. it's a phone you can buy now. all of your transmitted messages and your phone calls are encrypted. these are the router a web router that ensures web browsers are encrypted. >> there's an object that stands out. the twin typewriter is the lowest object. the russian secret services ordered up a load of the typewriters after the edward snowden leaks when they realised it's too easy to put a u.s.b. stick in a computer to steal data. there's a moment of progress that technology taught them to go back 30 years to feel safe about data in the office. this is on the edge of paranoia but could be the caution we have to exercise in the 21st century. >>> making ends met in america. it's tough and only getting tougher. workers want bigger paychecks. economic growth all over the world is still sluggish. call it

a record gift for the smithsonian's national museum of natural history. a lover of rare gems has given $13 million for science education initiatives. the gift by crlean wright whitney is the largest education gift in the museum's history. whitney is a professor in washington state. she also donated the color changing whitney alexandrite gem on display at the museum. still to come at 6:00 -- >> three former ushers at nats park say the organization discriminated against them because of their religious beliefs. i'm stephen tschida. that story for you next. maureen: and the potential for storms. doug is finding out the worst of it and taking a look at the changes to your weekend forecast. tim: and i'm tim brandt inside of the ballpark. if you're on your way down bring a sweater and carry a coat. it's chilly and damp. ball pairs want to get this one in and jordan zimmerman will be on the hill as abc 7 news at 6:00 con maureen: breaking news from petersburg virginia, where there is an active amber alert for 4-year-old kalela. she is believed to be with phillip k

capitol, the state department and several museums in d.c. lost power along with the university of maryland. but since then, power has been restored to some of those buildings. crews are now working to restore power to those who are still in the dark. and we've got several of our crews following this story around the region. look for updates tonight at and on line at wjla.com. alison: that's oprah standing there in the dark helping with the presentation here in d.c. one she'll never forget. let's get to the weather today. some of us could see rain and storms later tonight. leon: let's get the latest on that. doug hill tracking it for us. doug: let's check live super doppler radar, no thunder right now. we got our convenient lightning detector in the right-hand corner of the screen. clearly, good downpours between strasburg and front royal. they'll move eastward through marshall and through loudoun. i know my counties well faquier county and then when you go farther north, just isolated downpours. there will be rain coming across the entire met

donna de salvo is the museum's chief curator. is it true that some of these you just sort of found in the basement? >> well, we had them carefully in our storage area. but this work is pretty extraordinary. and using the tv as this creative medium in this way is one we really have not shown in many, many years. so it's a great revelation for us, the idea of the television in that '60s moment, you know it's such a rich idea. >> brown: in addition to being able to show a lot of things you couldn't, was there a theme? >> our title "america is hard to see" is because it's impossible to sum up what american art is. it's not a greatest hits show. it's not a highlight show. it's really a thematic interpretation of different pre- occupations across 115 years that come up over and over for artists. >> brown: a quiet moment in the new galleries, but not for architect trezzani. do you like this moment when everything is sort of raw and the workers are all around us? >> i'm just waiting for them to arrive. tomorrow! >> brown: you just want it

. >> representatives from 15 facilities have been invited to the metropolitan museum of art so-called global leaders cloak wee um. it's a think tank aimed at keeping galleries relevant and connected to the public, in the digital age. >> 90% of our collection is on line very unusual for the museum but we have no digit allen be engagement when visitors come. i know they have got fabulous programs in this way. >> one goal is to offer visitors new ways to think about art. that's something its current exhibitor has always tried to do. >> on display at the gallery at the moment are the works are new zealand artist billy ethel who collaborated with andy warhol to pioneer the pop art movement. his latest passion is marrying art and branding. despite being 80, he is well up with the digital way. he believes it is easier for young artists today to connect with their audience. >> when i started there was simply the museums and gallery and then once a year, if you're lucky, you might get a show or in a group show. it's very traditional. i think we've gone way past all that. >> the gallery conside

. >> at east it was in the 1920s. >> concrete platforms like this one. >> but the art museum sitsdidn't want to put boilers in the art museum because boilers exploded. >> yeah. >> frequently. >> um-hmm. >> they didn't want to put the art at risk. >> great for the artwork hundreds of yards away. not so much for the aquarium that occupied the same room from 1911 until 1962. >> looks like the top of the titanic. it's where leftovers from the old aquarium were found in the '80's. >> these are fish hatching tubs. >> to raise their own supply of fish for display. inside huge tanks you viewed from a skylight in the rooftop walkway. >> that's just sediment. a thin layer on the glass. >> that's pretty heff 53 glass. people walked on this glass 100 years ago and leaned against these even longer. >> are these original? >> yes. these balusters were put in place in 1872. it's all cast iron and then they were painted to make them look like stone like cut stone. >> most of what you see outside today are replicas. so what becomes of these? look or what lies beyond this room? >> that right there l

but the museum located south of market and san francisco. ave heard this before. >> the occupancy in this neighborhood is full. there's not a lot of available space. so a lot of tech companies -- this has become a sort of tech corridor. >> reporter: they are paying $20,000 a month now. that's a lot for a nonprofit. but the rent is likely to double. so the museum has to draw up new plans. >> you know, yeah, you'll get this clientele that can spend that kinds of money but then you're going to lose that ability for the neighborhood to integrate and be a usable workable neighborhood and that's i real concern. >> reporter: it's the stuff of a pointed political cartoon. san francisco is losing what makes it san francisco. art, culture, quirky stuff like the cartoon museum. >> think it's a detriment to the city. it's -- it's -- it makes it difficult for people to be, you know, to learn new things and to see things that they love and to carry on. >> reporter: they are looking for a new place but finding space in this city is not fun. the last caption

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i am at the national museum of the american indian. one of the things that interest us greatly is the persistence of stereotypes. our visitors don't come as blank slates, they come with a preconceived set of ideas, not uninformed but misinformed. as you can see, just a couple of years ago at the vatican. this is a man there at the vatican celebrating as she understands native american culture. this is one of those examples where we can hardly alter at fault. she does not know any better because this is what she has been taught. this entire notion of cultural appropriation and taking from native people of their authority to define who they are emerged at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. this is part of the imagery that laid the groundwork for what would later become this business of using indians as mascots. really, abusing our history in more significant ways. this is the end of the trail them in, a famous one. it indicates defeat but also the disappearance of native americans. in fact, the very object of a govern

the smithsonian natural history museum has received a $13 million donation to support its education efforts. the donation was announced at an event this afternoon. this is the museum's largest education donation to date. it will support the museum's silent education center. that facility will be renamed the whitney science education center in honor of miss whitney the donor. the loudoun county high school robotics team will take part in a national competition after all thanks to some generous donors. last weekend, the team was named runner-up at a regional competition in tennessee. but an s.u.v. containing the team's robot and other equipment was stolen from a hotel parking lot. today, the students received a $15,000 donation from the loudoun county chamber of commerce and several i.t. companies. >> it's overwhelming from waking up on sunday morning to lose everything to in a few short days we're so grateful for all the outpouring of support we've received. maureen: the team will be able to use a backup robot later this month in st. louis. good news for them. what about us? tim: trying to g