The National Museum of American Jewish History, founded in 1976 with 40 objects, now has more than 30,000 artifacts and state-of-the-art technology in a five-story building affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Covering nearly four centuries of Jewish life in America, it has a free exhibition on the ground floor displaying Einstein's pipe, Irving Berlin's piano and Stephen Spielberg's first movie camera.

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