Today in Smithsonian History: October 4, 1974
On opening night of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a crowd has gathered in the interior court around what appears to be an alien spacecraft. (Photographer unknown, as featured in the Torch, November 1974)
October 4, 1974 The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opens to the public. It is the Smithsonian’s museum for modern and contemporary art and is also known for its extensive sculpture collection. The inaugural exhibition, representing highlights from the permanent collection, and including 900 works in all media, some of which had never before been exhibited, will run through September 15, 1975.
“Lobster Telephone” by Salvador Dali (1938) is among the works featured in the Hirshhorn exhibition “Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York,” that was on view Oct. 2015 through Feb. 2016. © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2015
Take a video tour of the Hirshhorn today:
Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives and the Hirshhorn.
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