"An Odyssey in Print: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries" opens to the public on Thursday, May 16, 2002 in the Smithsonian Libraries Gallery, located on the 1st floor of the National Museum of American History, Behring Center (14th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.). The exhibition will run through December 2003.
Drawing from the multifaceted collections of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, "An Odyssey in Print" offers a glimpse of some of the Libraries' most visually alluring and historically valuable objects. Featured are explorations of the physical world, journeys of the intellect, and flights of the imagination as they have been recorded in lavishly illustrated books and manuscripts. So extensive is this survey of the Libraries' collection that it will be divided into three parts, shown over a period of 18 months.
For further details, please see the Libraries' press release, located at:
http://www.sil.si.edu/press/press-release-odyssey.htm
Enjoy a digital version of "Odyssey" at:
www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/odyssey
A 150-page catalog including a foreword by Smithsonian Libraries' Director, Nancy E. Gwinn and essays by Michael Dirda of Washington Post Book World, Storrs Olson of the National Museum of Natural History, and exhibition curator, Smithsonian Libraries' own Mary Augusta Thomas, is currently available from Smithsonian Institution Press by visiting their site at: http://www.sipress.si.edu/books/titles_books/1-58834-036-8.html
Please contact Savannah Schroll at (202) 357-2240 for further information and details.
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