Word: museum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fogg Art Museum/Sackler Art Museum...
GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This excellent show rescues the Spanish master from the Romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March...
...Space museum is the most popular of its kind in the world, and for good reason. Planes hang from the ceiling. Rockets rise from the carpeted floor. And a five-story cinema shows amazing IMAX movies like "The Dream is Alive," which will make you feel like you are in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle...
...have already seen those two and the other big mall museums like the Hirshorn, which features more modern art, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Castle, try the new, underground Sackler Asian Art and African Art museums. They are a little more exotic than their above-ground neighbors...
...ever sees anything off the beaten track in Washington, because there is so much on it, but if you want to escape crowds, check out the Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks. This serene Georgetown park has a museum of Byzantine Art and a HOLLIS-listed library. Or take a walk in Rock Creek Park, a sinuous strip of hilly forest in the heart of the city...