The Smithsonian last week debuted its long in the works Entertainment Nation, an entire wing at the National Museum of American History devoted, for the first time, to pop culture. With Dolby sound…
“One of the statements that we want to make here is that this stuff is not separate from history,” said Ryan Lintelman, curator of the entertainment collection. “It is not something that we should look down on or excuse that you are into movies or sports or whatever it may be. It is actually really vitally fundamental to our identities and to our history.”
but that is not the point. Visitors likely will first spot R2D2 and C3PO, costumes/characters used inand acquired from Lucasfilm. Steps away is a case featuring an 1884 Buffalo Bill play set and another with General Tom Thumb’s top hat, circa 1863. For years there has been a special cache to having props donated and accepted by the Smithsonian, often with much fanfare. Norman Lear and the stars ofturned out for a ceremony in the late-1970s when the living room chair’s from the show, including Archie Bunker’s upholstered wingback, were donated, put in a glass case and featured in the museum’s Nation of Nations exhibit.
In the past four decades, these pop culture artifacts have become treasures, a contrast to the days when studios tossed out sets and costumes or stashed them away in prop warehouses. As we enter the age of the metaverse, there’s an argument to be made that these treasures only will increase in value, as a material contrast to the virtual world. When it recovered a stolen pair of the ruby slippers in 2018, the FBI said that they were estimated to be worth in the millions of dollars.
“I say no a lot. We have limited resources and space and everything too,” Lintelman said. “So we have to meet a bar, and we even have processes internally where we have to kind of take that case to our colleagues and say, “We think we ought to collect this,’ and they approve or disapprove that idea. We are very thoughtful of how we spend the American taxpayers’ money, being a federal institution.”
There is a section devoted to representation, from stereotypes to groundbreaking roles. “Entertainment has long traded in racist, dehumanizing stereotypes. But some comedians have used their craft to push back — to express the fullness of their humanity.” An example: A video display showed a clip ofand actor Jack Soo, who was placed in an interment camp in World War II and spoke out about negative portrayals of Asian Americans.
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