The Smithsonian Institution (novel)

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The Smithsonian Institution  
First edition cover
Author(s) Gore Vidal
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Little, Brown
Publication date 15 October 1998
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 272 p. (hardback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-316-64504-4 (hardback edition)
OCLC Number 60211198

Gore Vidal's 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 has supposedly claimed that this was the inspiration for the 2006 film Night at the Museum[citation needed]. The film was in fact based on the 1993 children's book The Night at the Museum.


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