![]() ![]() The contemporary bi-level museum displays rare English and American antiques from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Call 80.Īn exhibit of 200 objects, with designs inspired by a growing awareness of nature during the 17th and 18th centuries, opens Wednesday in Colonial Williamsburg’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Gallery in Williamsburg, Va.Ĭalled “Images of Nature, Creations of Man: Natural History and the Decorative Arts,” the items are from Williamsburg’s collections of English and American decorative arts. Admission is $5.75, $2.75 for children 6 to 12. Several items are on loan from private collectors and other institutions. It’s called “The American and British Foot Soldier, 1775-1785.” Soldiers’ experiences are illustrated with period graphics, documents and Revolutionary War uniforms, weapons and other military artifacts. The lives of ordinary soldiers who fought in the American Revolution are examined in a new exhibit opening Wednesday in the Yorktown Victory Center, along Old Route 238 in Yorktown, Va. Admission is $5.50, $5 for seniors and military personnel, $4.50 for children 3 to 12. The museum is at 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Logan Square. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Travel Exhibition Service, the exhibit will be in the museum through June 28. A real-time display will document seismic activity in Hawaii as it happens. A fiber-optic map will show locations of 1,000 of the world’s most active volcanoes.Īlso on display will be scientific instruments used to monitor volcanoes. Touchable volcanic specimens and computers provide hands-on information. Highlights include volcanic models, color murals, back-lit transparencies and film sequences that capture the eruptions of Washington’s Mount St. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Īn exhibit called “Inside Active Volcanoes” opens Saturday at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. ![]()
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