In Popular Culture
- In Fallout 3, a derelict exhibit at the museum serves as the entrance to Underworld, a civilization established by ghouls.
- In the 2008 film Get Smart, the fictional spy organization CONTROL is located underneath the National Museum of Natural History.
- The giant squid from the National Museum of Natural History inspired the one that comes to life in 20th Century Fox's film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)
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