Catalog and Self-Guided Walking Tour Itinerary of Immovable Objects I

Catalog and self-guided walking tour itinerary of Immovable Objects I
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Location: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Catalog and self-guided walking tour itinerary of Immovable Objects I

By Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 1975.

Immovable Objects I was the first of a series of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhibitions to showcase architecture and urban design beyond the walls of its home at the Carnegie Mansion on East 91st Street. Project director Dorothy Twining Globus and museum director Lisa Taylor produced the exhibition in the summer of 1975, shortly before the then-named Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design reopened to the public as the newest of the Smithsonian museums. The exhibition invited viewers on a self-guided walking tour from Battery Park to the Brooklyn Bridge; this booklet not only served as the exhibition catalog, but also as tour guide. In lieu of traditional wayfinding signage, the museum had arranged for businesses in the Exhibition Loop to attach special “ticker tape” to their facades.

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