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 The Interior Museum is located at the Main Interior Building, the Department of the Interior headquarters. | |
  Location within Washington, D.C. | |
| Established | March 8, 1938 |
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| Location | 1849 C Street NW Washington, D.C. |
| Coordinates | 38°53′37″N 77°02′33″W / 38.893642°N 77.042592°W |
| Public transit access | 
Farragut West |
| Website | doi.gov/interiormuseum |
The Interior Museum is a museum operated by the United States Department of the Interior and housed at the department's headquarters at the Stewart Lee Udall Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., on the first floor.[1]
When the Interior Museum opened in the U.S. Department of the Interior's newly constructed headquarters in the nation's capital on March 8, 1938, a museum was considered a novel element to include in a federal office building. However, the Secretary of the Interior at that time—Harold Ickes (1874–1952)—was a proponent of the arts and also strongly believed in the importance of having the American people understand the work of the department. To this day, the Interior Museum's mission remains to actively educate and inspire employees and the public about the ongoing stewardship of the nation's public lands, natural resources, and cultural heritage. The Interior Museum's collection contains more than 8,000 objects of historical, cultural, and scientific importance relating directly to the activities of the department.
In addition to developing exhibitions and public programs, Interior Museum staff also conduct public tours highlighting the elements that made the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building a "symbol of a new day" during the Great Depression. The headquarters building contains more New Deal-era murals than any other government building, featuring such artists as John Steuart Curry, Maynard Dixon, William Gropper, Allan Houser, Velino Herrera, and Millard Sheets, plus a series of photomurals by Ansel Adams.
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This Week at Interior April 18, 2014
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[background music] "Posterity" is an exhibition with the Department of the Interior museum that is a visually stunning retrospective of nearly 50 national park posters inclusive of 14 original designs that were done between 1938 and 1941 for the National Park Service by WPA artists working with the Works Progress Administration. The 14 original designs were originally lost to history up until about the early 1970s when a former seasonal park ranger named Doug Leen happened upon one at Grand Tueton national park. Through his love of the parks and finding that original poster, it encouraged him to rediscover the posters and re-edition them. Not only the 14 original designs, but to continue forward with that artistic legacy and working with an artist named Brian Maebius to create nearly 35 new posters done in the style of the WPA. I hope the public leaves the Posterity exhibition with a renewed appreciation not only for our national parks and public lands, but also for a very special time in American history when artists were being put back to work in the New Deal era and creating really special artwork for the national parks. That artistic legacy continues to this day. The physicality of how these posters were made with silk-screening, and then just an overall appreciation of the history that these came from. [music]
References
- ^ "Interior Museum". Doi.gov. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Upcoming Public Programs at the Interior Museum
- U.S. Department of the Interior Museum at Google Cultural Institute
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