Star-Spangled Banner Gallery, White House Copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Are Highlights of Opening Year Exhibitions

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open its doors to the public Friday, Nov. 21, providing a new look at the almost 200-year-old Star-Spangled Banner and a rare chance to see the White House copy of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The reopening will mark the completion of a two-year, $85 million renovation of the building’s center core, dramatically transforming the museum’s architectural appeal while reorganizing and renewing the presentation of its extensive collections.

Visitors will enter a dramatic five-story sky-lit atrium, surrounded by artifact displays filled with more than 400 objects showcasing the breadth and depth of the museum’s three million objects representing the cultural, social, technological and political history of the United States. An architectural representation of a waving flag—960 reflective tiles made of polycarbonate material—frames the entrance to the Star-Spangled Banner gallery. The gallery itself is a climate-controlled state-of-the-art chamber designed to evoke the “dawn’s early light.” An exhibition that includes multimedia displays and historic objects will tell the story of the flag and the National Anthem.

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Once again we talk with the artists of meseon community. Today, we know more about Ana Schaub and her artwork. Enjoy it!!


Ana Schaub: "Art is an amazing channel of communication. For artists it is a way to express, explore and exert them selves, and for viewers it is a reason to see, interact, think. The more diverse, and turbulent art is, the more it has a purpose in society."

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Once again we talk with the artists of meseon community. Today, we know more about Shefqet Avdush Emini and his artwork. Enjoy it!!


Shefqet Avdush Emini:

"I can express my emotions the easiest through the colours, lines and brushes then when I speak. I think that the paintings are the honest expression of my communication with the world".

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