| Description |
7 videodiscs (approximately 22 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; widescreen; NTSC; stereo. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. New Orleans: a living museum of music -- National Music Museum: America's shrine to music -- Institute of Texan Cultures: behind the Lone Star -- The Charleston Museum: America's first museum -- The Deta Blues Museum: the Blues lives on! -- DuSable Museum of African-American history: American soul -- disc 2. The National Baseball Hall of Fame: home base -- Ellis Island Immigration Museum: Face of America -- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: native voice -- National D-day Museum: triumph of the spirit -- The Library of Congress: volumes to speak -- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum: water ways -- disc 3. Molly Brown House Museum: the unsinkable -- Colorado History Museum: crossroads of culture -- Californania Surf Museum: proudly we wave -- Autry Museum of Western Heritage: spirit of the west -- The National Museum of Racing: horse power -- disc 4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: a world of art -- The Museum of Modern Art: in our time -- George Eastman House: picture perfect -- Isabella Stewart Gardner museum: collective vision -- disc 5. China: west meets east: at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- The Great Museums of Havana: curious about Cuba -- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: art gets a start in America -- National Museum of Women in the arts: a woman's touch -- disc 6. An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and the the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Riches, Rivals & Radicals: 100 years of museums in America -- The Walker Art Center: creative catalyst -- Morris Museum of Art: the art of the south -- disc 7. The Smithsonian National Zoo: wild thing! -- The Franklin Institute: wonderland of science --The Boston Children's Museum: mind over matter -- The Whale Museum: science at sea -- New York City Fire Museum: trial by fire -- The Henry Ford: made in America -- California State Railroad Museum: behind ties. |
| Language |
English SDH subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Museums -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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| Added Author |
Great Museums (Firm)
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Eureka Foundation.
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| Standard No. |
841887017619 |
| Music No. |
GMUS600.1--GMUS600.7 PBS |
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