Museums & Attractions
- Washington, D.C.’s National Museum of Crime & Punishment recently opened, featuring instruments of forensics, investigation, enforcement and violence. Artifacts housed within the 28,000-square-foot complex include firearms, detection equipment, prison art and automobiles, all coming from hundreds of justice and law enforcement divisions nationwide, including several from California. Featured items include Kevin Costner’s revolver from The Untouchables and Luca Brasi’s mob pistol from The Godfather. The museum also is home to multiple artifacts from Alcatraz, including postcards, letters and a prisoner ID camera. Other permanent attractions inside the museum include opportunities to interact with a realistic forensics lab, create ID cards and fingerprinting, and use a lie detector test. Visitors to the museum can also experience first-hand the skills necessary to fight crime through such interactive components as a simulated FBI shooting range and high-speed police chase simulators. For more information, call 202.621.5567 or visit www.crimemuseum.org.
- Cleveland Museum of Art is presenting Artistic Luxury: Faberge Tiffany Lalique through Jan. 18. This exhibition is the first comparative study of the work of the three greatest jewelry and luxury goods designers at the turn of the 20th century: Peter Carl Faberge, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Rene Lalique. Artistic Luxury will explore how these designers responded to the demand for luxury goods among the world’s Gilded Age consumers in the years leading up to World War I. Each was known for his own characteristic style and achievement as well as geographical sphere of influence, which will be highlighted in this exhibition through separate galleries devoted to each jeweler. For more information, call 216.421.7350 or visit www.clemusart.com.