This is a collection that has been sought after by everyone in the museum world because it is so great, ... Finally, for reasons I wholeheartedly agree with, it came here.

I'm amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the hat that Abraham Lincoln had on the day he died, in buildings that really not only possibly endanger them, but the American people coming to look at them.

Lawrence Small

This is a collection that has been sought after by everyone in the museum world because it is so great, ... Finally, for reasons I wholeheartedly agree with, it came here.

Lawrence Small