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[[underlined]] The American Experience [[/underlined]]

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

American Revolution Bicentennial Program

[[underlined]] BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITIONS [[/underlined]]

I. [[underlined]] A NATION OF NATIONS [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] A Nation of Nations [[/underlined]], the largest exhibition ever produced by the Smithsonian Institution, will occupy the entire west side on the Mall level of the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), an area of approximately 30,000 square feet. It will explore the peopling of America, which resulted in the formation of a new society incorporating the different cultures and experiences brought from all over the world. The exhibition will not slight the difficulties faced by many immigrants and immigrant groups -- but will emphasize one of the great human dramas of modern history: never have so many people moved to one place in such a short period of time. As a result of their decision a new nation and new people came into being.

In the exhibition, visitors will have an opportunity to consider the following topics: the motivations for coming to America and the story of the passage, not just trans-oceanic but trans-continental as well; immigrant pioneering; the process of becoming Americans -- our institutions, common language, new traditions, and new ways of doing things; the persistance of old feelings -- the problems of prejudice and discrimination together with the strengths of old and familiar traditions; the contributions made by the world to the new American nation and America's contributions in return.

II. [[underlined]] Ecology 200 [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Ecology 200 [[/underlined]] will be installed just off the Constitution Avenue entrance in the largest gallery of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). The theme of the exhibition is our changing land with emphasis on the impact man has made on that land over the past 200 years. In a series of four habitats describing times before man, at colonization, at our independence, and the present, the visitor will walk through hundreds of years