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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
October 15, 1998

ISBN
  
0-316-64504-4

Author
  
Gore Vidal

OCLC
  
60211198

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
272 p.

Originally published
  
15 October 1998

Publisher
  
Little, Brown and Company

Genres
  
Fiction, Novel

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Gore Vidal books
  
Dark Green - Bright Red, Live from Golgotha: The Gosp, The Golden Age, Duluth, Myron

Gore Vidal's 1998 novel The Smithsonian Institution is a fictional account of the adventures of "T." as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create the neutron bomb, and encounters historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover Cleveland.

Vidal supposedly claimed that this was the inspiration for the 2006 film Night at the Museum. The film was in fact based on the 1993 children's book The Night at the Museum. The original version of that children's book had the night watchmen seeing dinosaurs come to life—not historical figures—and not inside the Smithsonian, as they do in Vidal's novel.

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The Smithsonian Institution (novel) Wikipedia