National Museum of American History
The Museum collects, cares for, and preserves over 17 million artifacts, including priceless stamps housed in the National Postal Museum. We watch over everything from George Washington's field tent and the original Star-Spangled Banner to Ford's 1913 Model-T and Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. The Museum's collections document our national heritage in technology, industrial development, military history, transportation, textiles, costume, domestic life, sport, the arts, and community life. Ancient coins, racing cars, inaugural gowns of America's first ladies, musical instruments, weaponry, farm machinery, the lap desk Thomas Jefferson used while drafting the Declaration of Independence, and much more form a vast and fascinating mosaic of American life.
