The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 16, April 18, 2004, Article 7

SMITHSONIAN NUMISMATICS HALL CLOSING

  Gar Travis and Dick Johnson forwarded an Associated Press
  article about the impending closure of the Smithsonian's
  Numismatics Hall at the Museum of American History in
  Washington, D.C.:

  "The world's largest collection of money and medals will be
  closed to the public this summer after 40 years, the National
  Museum of American History announced Friday.  Selections
  from the 1.6 million coins, medals and pieces of paper money
  are shown in the museum's Numismatics Hall. The collection
  will remain open to scholars and will make loans to other
  museums after the closing, set for August.

  The collection includes 700,000 pieces of money issued by
  the Confederacy during the Civil War, and feathers from the
  rare, gaudy quetzal bird, once used for money in Central
  America."

  "The decision to close the hall is part of a reorganization
  undertaken after an official panel criticized the museum's
  organization.

  "The original design scheme of separate subject halls will be
  updated as the museum moves to thematic presentations,
  reinterpreting collections in a narrative format," the museum
  said in a statement announcing the closing.

  Spokesman Melinda Machado said that, for example, an
  exhibit on the American military will include a section on
  how the Revolutionary War was paid for."

  To read the full article, see: Full Article

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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