Department of Tourism
For Immediate Release:  May 10, 2002
Contact:  Kerry Nixon, (605) 773-3301 or kerry.nixon@state.sd.us

Futuristic Smithsonian Exhibition Visits Chamberlain

Forecasting the future often conjures up images of living like the Jetsons, the convenience of robots, spaceships and ultra-sonic showers. Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future, a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition, explores 19th- and 20th-century expectations of the future. Visitors will discover what was predicted in housing, transportation, books, movies and communities of the future and compare those visions to today’s world.

Sponsored by the South Dakota Department of Tourism, South Dakota Humanities Council, State Historic Preservation Office and South Dakota State University Extension Youth Development/4-H, the Yesterday’s Tomorrows exhibit opened April 29 at the South Dakota Hall of Fame in Chamberlain. The exhibit will continue through May 31.

Visitors can journey through local displays at each of the six remaining South Dakota communities hosting Yesterday’s Tomorrows exhibition throughout 2002. For a complete schedule or for more information about the South Dakota tour of Smithsonian’s Yesterday’s Tomorrows exhibition, visit www.yesterdaystomorrows.org or call Kerry Nixon at the Department of Tourism at (605) 773-3301 or e-mail kerry.nixon@state.sd.us.

For South Dakota travel information, visit www.travelsd.com or call 1-800-S-DAKOTA (1-800-732-5682) to request a free travel packet.

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