Stories from the Vaults
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- S 1 E 1 - Famous Donors3 settembre 200727minTom takes us back to the origins of the Smithsonian's collections. He explores Teddy Roosevelt's hunting trophies, John Steinbeck's sea urchins and Phyllis Diller's joke file. Add this to the roughly 50,000 items donated annually, and you get a sense of the immense number of artifacts the Smithsonian holds in its museums.Questo video non è al momento disponibile
- S 1 E 2 - Superlatives10 settembre 200727minTom is on a mission: to discover what it means to be the best, the tiniest, the coldest and the most misunderstood. He explores the art of taxidermy at the National Museum of Natural History, the music of a 300-year-old Stradivarius at the National Museum of American History and unique technology that scrunches the Bible onto one tiny microchip.Questo video non è al momento disponibile
- S 1 E 3 - No Place Like Home17 settembre 200727minTom tries to unravel the idea of "Home Sweet Home." He visits the National Air and Space Museum's collection of space suits, learns about Native American tipis at the National Museum of the American Indian and finds an astonishing array of life in a thimble of sand.Questo video non è al momento disponibile
- S 1 E 4 - Beauty24 settembre 200727minTom explores the many faces of beauty through the eyes of scientists. Three Smithsonian curators offer their surprising perspectives on the elusive meaning of true beauty as it applies to their work with advertising, orchids and ants. Beauty isn't just in the eye of the beholder.Questo video non è al momento disponibile
- S 1 E 5 - Firsts4 novembre 200727minEnter the vaults of the National Museum of American History and the National Air and Space Museum in search of earth-shattering firsts. From a new collection of vintage planes to the very first videogame (hint: it wasn't Pong), Tom discovers what it takes to claim the title of Number One.Questo video non è al momento disponibile
- S 1 E 6 - Life After Death11 novembre 200727minThe Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of Natural History and the National Postal Museum all hold clues to the afterlife. Deep inside the vaults, the evidence for life after death has never been more convincing.Questo video non è al momento disponibile
- S 1 E 7 - Random18 novembre 200727minTom dives into the very heart of the world's largest museum complex, amidst more than 136 million objects. With such an incredible variety of things to see, any single artifact could seem out of place, but there's nothing haphazard about the systematic collections at the Smithsonian. Tom visits the National Zoo and the National Museum of American History, showing us that breadth certainly doesn't equal randomness.Questo video non è al momento disponibile
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