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Smithsonian exhibit downplays Jewish-American scientific achievement

Smithsonian exhibit downplays Jewish-American scientific achievement

Jewish, progressive activism gets a single nod in a t-shirt, however.

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May 12, 2022
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Were he less murinely-inclined, Robert Burns might have written “The best laid schemes o’ curators and exhibit designers…” I am shocked how frequently curators leave the crux of well-conceived exhibits for catalog essays, knowing how few visitors acquire, let alone read, expensive tomes. Many do not even glance at free exhibit labels and wall texts, whi…

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