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What You Need to Know About the September 24 NMAAHC Grand Opening
Entry Passes are all gone for today, but there is plenty to see and do on the National Mall
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The Music Is Turned Up High at the Freedom Festival (PHOTOS)
Where to go and who to hear as the celebrations begin at the concert on the National Mall “Freedom Sounds”
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This Music Was Composed by Climate Change
Dying forests make magnificently melancholy listening
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The New Exhibition on Black Music Could Give Other Museums a Run for Their Money
The collections in the show “Musical Crossroads” at the African American History Museum are near encyclopedic in their scope
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A New Choral Work Was Inspired by the Death of Matthew Shepard
“Considering Matthew Shepard” finds hope inside a story of hate
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The ‘Freedom Sounds’ Festival includes D.C. Go-Go band Experience Unlimited, Public Enemy, The Roots, Living Colour and more
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The Powerful Objects From the Collections of the Smithsonian’s Newest Museum
These artifacts each tell a part of the African-American story
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Michael Jackson’s Costumes Show Why Nobody Can Beat the King of Pop When it Comes to Style
Outfits from the Jackson’s “Victory” tour will be part of an inaugural exhibition at the African American History Museum
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How to Get Timed-Entry Passes for National Museum of African American History and Culture
It’s finally time to plan your trip to NMAAHC
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Is blues music a thing of the past? A festival in Memphis featuring musicians of all ages and nationalities shouts an upbeat answer
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How the Library of Congress Is Digitizing Its Braille Music Collection
It’s not as simple as putting it through a scanner
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Explore Johnny Cash’s Tennessee Ranch-Turned Museum
Complete with a car built “one piece at a time”
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Finland’s Hot New Karaoke Bar Is a Public Library
Don’t stop believin’ in the power of music
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This Sculpture Is Controlled by Live Honeybees
Artist Wolfgang Buttress collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to create a giant, metallic hive
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How Engineers Got a Vinyl Record to Play in the Stratosphere
Fittingly, it took notes from Carl Sagan
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For Sale: 400 Awesome Vintage Boomboxes
A New Zealand aficionado is auctioning off his collection of iconic 1980s music machines
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The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music
The Hubble Cantata brings the stars down to earth
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Why VHS and Five Other Formats May Live Forever
The final VCRs will ship later this month, but if recent history is any indicator, it doesn’t mean the VHS format will vanish for good
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This Classical Mandolinist Makes Music With…Instagram?
“InstaConcerto for Mandolin and Orchestra” plays with a genre known more for its selfies than its chamber music
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Jane Austen’s Music Collection Is Now Online
Play piano like a Darcy with nearly 600 Austen-approved tunes
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