New DC museum focuses on the American Dream

What is your American dream and how do you achieve it? A new museum, steps from the White House, hopes to help answer that question.

“This space is dedicated to the idea of the American dream and the sense that this is an ideal worth striving for, worth celebrating,” said Emily Metzner, director of content and exhibits at the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream.

Visitors to the museum walk through the front doors and are immediately looking at a mesmerizing, life-size gold tree sculpture. The Ambassador George L. Argyros Tree of Generations comes complete with hundreds of “leaves” that are actually small screens that display pictures of people who come to the museum and take a selfie at a special kiosk.

While the focus of the museu

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