Smithsonian Magazine

For Its Birthday, the U.S. Will Give Americans of the Future a 900-Pound Time Capsule Filled With Art, Natural Treasures and a Clever Copy of the Declaration of Independ…

The capsule was created and filled at the direction of Congress, through the America250 commission. It will be interred ...

"Do not open until July 4, 2276": What will America's Time Capsule reveal?

To mark America's 250th, a time capsule will be buried in Philadelphia on July 4, not to be opened until America's ...

A diamond, a whale bone and lots of letters: What’s inside the America 250 time capsule

Paper, the traditional gift for marking a couple’s first year of marriage, also is a great choice for 250th anniversaries — ...
Hyperallergic

Two Time Capsules Opened After More Than a Century

Contents of the 1914 time capsule revealed at the New-York Historical Society (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The two oldest known and unopened time capsules were unsealed last week, one ...