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Stanley J. and Betty McDermott'join the second line down Chartres Street for the WRC opening.
1996
The Williams Research Center opens to the
public January 20. The Chartres Street facility makes all The Collection’s holdings accessible from a single location. The same year, The Collection hosts its first WRC Symposium. .
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The landmark exhibition A Fusion of Nations,
A Fusion of Cultures: Spain, France, the United States and the Louisiana Purchase garners international media attention and record attendance figures. Also part of the Louisiana Purchase bicentennial is the release of Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps.
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The Laussat Society is founded, opening up public membership to The Collection. Other membership levels were added soon after.
George L. Viavant: Artist of the Hunt inaugurates THNOC’s Louisiana Artists Biography Series.
THNOC mounts its first off-site, international exhibition, From Louis XIV to Louis Armstrong, at the Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris........................
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