David Haberstich's story reminds me of the day I was sitting outside of "his" museum, the National Museum of American History (for those outside the U.S., this is one of the many museums of the Smithsonian that line the national Mall ... it is a rather large and imposing building and is well labelled). A family group approached me and asked me if I could tell them where the Smithsonian "Institute" (sic) was. I started to ask them what museum they were looking for and tried to explain that there were many Smithsonian museums, including the one they were standing directly in front of. No, no, they said. "It's a large building with big letters on the front." It was at that point that I kind of gave up and they wandered off up Constitution Avenue (going past the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of Natural History, among others), presumably still in quest of their vision of what the Smithsonian should look like.