The White House Visitors Center and it is an amazing tool to understand the white house. Both from an architectural standpoint because you very rarely if ever can understand the whole totality of what the white house s you can see the main part of the house but also, too, its wings as well. You can do a 360 degree walk around the white house and see the construction of it and see really one of the most important historic objects in our nation, the white house, and understand its story much more, plus with the advent of technology we have touch screens where you can actually go inside the rooms and see them, see the objects in them, and then also explore them lieu the various centuries that the white house has been here. Im here today in the White House Visitors Center. Were going to take a look at some objects that have been lent from the Permanent Collection of the white house for exhibition here as part of the new and vastly improved White House Visitors Center that opened last fall.
Was it thatda, it people in canada had a rough time as well. But because it was a form of colonialism, unlike places in line america. Gentlemen, thank you. [applause] [applause] our friends at barnes and noble have the book for sale and dr. Kelton will be happy to sign your copy. Dr. Kelton thank you. Chatter] week, american artifacts takes you to museums to show what artifacts reveal about american history. Located in stanton, virginia, the Frontier Culture Museum tells the story of migrants from europe, we visit original houses germany,and, ireland, and we hear about the daily life in of the new world. We hear about what belongings they might have brought with them and well also see a 1740s farm. We will discover differences between european farms and American Farms. This is from the Frontier Culture Museum. We are a Living History Museum with a mission focus on education. Our objective here is teach people how a unique folk culture was created through blending european, african, and
Thats why the name is now the blue room. Its a very high style french chair. This is the one that we discovered had the most original material still a part of its guilding and its surface features and so it has been restored to look like it probably would have looked in the Monroe Administration with some very beautifully burnished smooth surfaces to simulate metal. In fact, that is fwilded wood. And then the red upholstery fabrics were put on to recreate its original appearance so that this became, then, the specimen chair we could use at the Visitors Center while we still have other chairs in the suite up holstered in blue that are in the blue room. Since the arrival of this chair in 1961 the white house has upped its total to ten original pieces from the suite that was made by pierre belogge. It represents some of the grandeur of white house interiors, how the public rooms were meant to be impressive to foreign diplomats and american citizens who came to the white house for politica
Selling that at market. Those would be the sources of income for this family. So they are working hard, they are doing well. And they have they are basically the top of the working class. Could you refer to them as the midland sort. And again they are farmers. This is based on the woodhouse family. They have edward and cecilia and on one stone is says e. W. And that stands for edward wood house and this is his home and he and his wife cecilia has six children. You can see it is timber framing and there was not as much wood in england at the time. Things like ship building and tanning have deforested so youre going to need to be resourceful. But the fact that this person can afford wood and have wood and Wooden Furniture in his home shows he is doing well. And we have in the square panels we have quadle and daub. That is like a basket weave, and one plain, with one plain and you would have daub on one side and daub on the other. It consists of what you have on the farm, like straw, anim
Joe warrens jaw and teeth in the years before warren was killed. So a unique feature for our visitors who come to the museum here in Silver Spring is a chan to see through the Looking Glass as it is into a working museum laboratory. This special lab was equipped to help us prepare and manage the wide range of artifacts in the museums care. What you see on the counter there now is a set of human remains, anatomical specimens, bones, that are laid out on the counter there and museum staff person doing some lab work in preparation of dealing with some objects in conservation, but we could use this lab to manage paper materials, other types of tissue or to prepare objects for longterm storage or for exhibit or display. So our last stop on our visit to the medical museum is here in front of one of the museums storage rooms where we manage our growing 25 million object collection. You can see just a few of the paintings in the museums holdings here in the row behind me and the large painting