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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM235R_welcome-to-the-hirshhorn-museums-sculpture-garden_Washington-DC.html
Welcome to the Hirshhorn Museum's Sculpture Garden
First opened in 1974, this garden displays sculptures from Europe and North America dating from the 1880s to the present. More than 400,000 people visit thsi garden each year. So while we invit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM235Q_yoko-ono_Washington-DC.html
Yoko Ono
American, b. Tokyo, Japan, 1933
Wish Tree
2007
Live tree
Gift of the artist, 2007 (07.6)
The Wish Tree series, begun in 1996, continues Ono's interactive art tradition by inviting visitors to whisper wishes to the tree.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM235P_welcome-to-the-hirshhorn-museums-sculpture-garden_Washington-DC.html
Welcome to the Hirshhorn Museum's Sculpture Garden
First opened in 1974, this garden displays sculptures from Europe and North America dating from the 1880s to the present. More than 400,000 people visit thsi garden each year. So while we invit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2301_can-you-hear-the-echo-of-the-water-bouncing-off-the-rock_Washington-DC.html
Shhhh, quiet please! Listen.
Can you hear the echo of the water bouncing off the rock?
Stand in front of this boulder, and listen to the echo of the water. This stone surface amplifies sound, just like ancient Mayan ball courts. In the Chich…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2300_rick-bartow-1946-2016_Washington-DC.html
Rick Bartow (1946-2016)
Wiyot
Oregon
We Were Always Here, 2012
Old-growth Western red cedar, Port Orford cedar, old-growth Douglas fir, oak, maple, stain, sealer
Commissioned from the artist 2011 (26/8852)
In creating these two poles fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22ZY_earth_Washington-DC.html
Earth
These tiny spheres are the planet Earth and its Moon at one 10-billionth actual size.
If Earth were this big, how far away would the Sun and other planets be? Look at the map on the lower panel to find our position in the solar system.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22ZX_asteroids-and-comets_Washington-DC.html
You are standing in the "asteroid belt," a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where countless rocks called asteroids orbit the Sun. Every so often icy body called comets pass through this region on their way to the inner solar system.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22ZW_uranus_Washington-DC.html
Uranus
This is the planet Uranus and its 4 largest moons at one 10-billionth actual size.
If Uranus were this big, how far away would Earth and other planets be? look at the map on the lower panel to find your position in the solar system?…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22YE_broadleaf-cattail-kahkahaskwar-kaw-kaw-has-quar_Washington-DC.html
Nearly every Native community in North America has used the cattail as food, medicine, or raw material for baskets and mats. The cattail contains ten times the amount of starch as potatoes—an important source of energy.
The Micmac and Ho-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22YD_bald-cypress-artu-ar-too_Washington-DC.html
In the middle of the wetlands, you can see the entire life cycle of the unusual bald cypress tree. A fallen cypress was placed in the wetlands to evoke an authentic wetlands environment—and a young cypress has begun to grow out of the stump …