The Museum creates original exhibits that open in Fort Worth then travel to children's and science museums across the nation, seen by millions. Current traveling exhibits include Joshua's Journey, Risk!, and CSI: The Experience.
Featured Presentation:
GORDON W. SMITH AND HIS BOYHOOD ODYSSEY IN INDIAN COUNTRY
By Dee Smith
Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010
3 p.m. – Oak Room
Celebrate the exhibition of Gordon W. Smith’s North American Indian Collection, now on display in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, by learning more about this amazing man. Join us on Sunday, August 29, for “Gordon W. Smith and his Boyhood Odyssey in Indian Country,” presented by Dee Smith.
In 1920, at age 5, Gordon Smith made his first journey to Indian country: a family trip to Glacier National Park where he met the fabled Indian chief Two-Guns-White-Calf, who gave him a small black, rawhide rattle. This meeting started his lifelong interest in American Indians and the collection of their art and artifacts. Dee Smith, Gordon’s son, will tell stories he heard from his father about how the collection was built and his experiences among the Indians.
The presentation will be held in the Museum’s Oak Room (on the Museum’s lower level) and is free to all guests. Admission to the Native American Gallery is included with Museum exhibit admission.
About Dee Smith
Dee Smith, CEO of Strategic Insight Group, has worked in fields ranging from private intelligence, to venture capital, to international museum exhibition organization.Since 1995, he has been CEO of Strategic Insight Group, a private intelligence agency based in North Texas and working in over 75 countries. Smith has a background in several research disciplines, and has conducted research and intelligence projects for the US Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1992 to 1995, he was president of Cima International, a UK-based venture capital firm focused on infrastructure investment in Latin America. From 1981 to 1992, he was founder and president of InterCultura, an international museum exhibitions organization noted for its ground-breaking projects on topics as varied as ancient Maya art, contemporary Japanese sculpture, medieval Russian art, and Ethiopian art, and for its international exhibition exchange programs focusing on sending American art abroad and bringing art of other nations to the United States.
He studied Maya epigraphy, archaeological decipherment, and deep research techniques with noted Maya scholar Dr. Linda Schele, and has a degree in music theory. He grew up surrounded by his father’s collection of over 1,000 American Indian objects, now on display at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
