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Exhibition: Are We There Yet? The Age of the Automobile, Main Gallery, May 26 to September 5, 2009
Exhibition: Revolutions and Solutions: A Celebration
of the World's Most Iconic Puzzle
April 8 to August 15, 2009
News: Reading Room closed for renovations, May 11 - August 31, 2009 Appointments available in temporary reading room
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Exhibition: A World of Puzzles, Slocum Room
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Reading Room renovation week 6
June 25th, 2009
Electrical work may be more complicated, but for now its impact is still hidden. But paint! Now there is a visible taste of what the renovated Reading Room will look like! These two photographs from last week show the ceiling being transformed from dull green to crisp white and blue.
– Erika Dowell, Public Services Librarian
Targets: Karloff and Bogdanovich
June 2nd, 2009
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887 in Camberwell, London) was a 44-year-old journeyman actor when director James Whale, unable to convince Bela Lugosi to accept the role, cast the mild-mannered Englishman as “the Monster” in the 1931 Universal horror film, Frankenstein. The actor’s sensitive portrayal of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s [...]
