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 2016_DC_SINH_100NPS | 71 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: 100 Years of America's National Park Service: Preserve, Enjoy, Inspire
100 Years of America's National Park Service: Preserve, Enjoy, Inspire
August 4, 2016 – August 2017
The National Park Service turns 100 this year! To celebrate, the National Park Service has teamed up with the National Museum of Natural History to present over 50 images by award-winning photographers,... |
| 2010_DC_SINH_100 | 29 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: 100th anniversary
Celebrating 100 Years at the National Museum of Natural History
May 29, 2010 – March 20, 2011
To mark the museum's 100th birthday, this exhibition highlights the behind-the-scenes research that advances scientific knowledge and inspires the museum's public educational programs. Over the last century,... |
| 2004_DC_SINH_African_Voices | 3 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: African Voices |
| 2022_DC_SINH_African_Voices | 176 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: African Voices |
| 2011_DC_SINH_Miners | 10 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine
Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine
August 5, 2011 – September 30, 2012
During the autumn of 2010, the world watched as rescuers in Chile ferried 33 miners to safety after nearly two months trapped in a collapsed mine. One of the capsules used for testing the rescue shaft, new video footage,... |
| 2022_DC_SINH_Barro_Colorado | 72 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Barro Colorado Island 100 Years of Discoveries and Wonder
Barro Colorado Island 100 Years of Discoveries and Wonder
November 18, 2022 – TBA
Celebrate the 100th Birthday of Barro Colorado Island Research Station by immersing yourself in a Panamanian jungle! From monkeys to microbes, research on the “most studied piece of tropical real estate in the world”... |
| 2020_DC_SINH_Beauty | 22 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Beauty Rich and Rare
Beauty Rich and Rare
January 9, 2020 – July 5, 2020
Beauty Rich and Rare is an immersive sound and light experience illuminating the natural beauty of Australia. Presented witht the support of the Embassy of Australia, the show recreates the wonder experienced by Joseph Banks and the botanists,... |
| 2023_DC_SINH_Cellphone | 249 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Cellphone: Unseen Connections
Cellphone: Unseen Connections
June 23, 2023 – TBA
Cell phones are the most iconic technology of our age. For the first time in history, telecommunications connect people at a truly global level, rapidly transforming not only human culture but also humans themselves. Despite their ubiquity, and the... |
| 2019_DC_SINH_Bearded | 55 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Challenging the Face of Science: The Bearded Lady Project
Challenging the Face of Science: The Bearded Lady Project
November 14, 2019 – TBA
This provocative exhibition is a collaboration between filmmaking, photography, and science to challenge the public perception of what a scientist looks like. Through a series of portraits and an accompanying documentary... |
| 2021_DC_SINH_Critical | 32 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Critical Distance
Critical Distance
September 29, 2021 – Summer 2022
Critical Distance is a free, augmented-reality experience emphasizing the intrinsic connection between people, orcas, and the ocean. The experience immerses visitors in a holographic orca pod and allows them to witness this endangered species’ daily... |
| 2010_DC_SINH_Cyprus | 3 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations
Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations
September 29, 2010 – May 1, 2011
The easternmost island of the Mediterranean has been a crossroads of civilizations for 11,000 years. Discover the history of Cyprus, its struggles, and achievements -- through a rich collection of more than 200 artifacts and... |
| 2021_DC_SINH_Diversity | 29 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Documenting Diversity: How Anthropologists Record Human Life
Documenting Diversity: How Anthropologists Record Human Life
June 18, 2021 – October 18, 2022
Examine the ways anthropologists have recorded and shared their field observations using the technologies of their time. Drawing on rare print and archival collections of the National Anthropological... |
| 2017_DC_SINH_Lounge | 65 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Garden Lounge
The Garden Lounge
November 16, 2017 – Indefinitely
The Garden Lounge serves as a welcoming interior garden rest and recharge area for visitors featuring live plants and a relaxing atmosphere with botany content as a frame. Bright sunlight, enhanced seating and designated outlets for charging mobile... |
| 2021_DC_SINH_Genome | 137 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Genome: Unlocking Life's Code
Genome: Unlocking Life's Code
October 21, 2021 – Summer 2022
This returning exhibition looks at the complexities of the genome—the complete set of genetic or hereditary material of a living organism—and chronicles the remarkable breakthroughs that have taken place since the completion of the Human... |
| 2013_DC_SINH_Genome | 28 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Genome: Unlocking Life's Code:
Genome: Unlocking Life's Code:
June 14, 2013 - September 1, 2014
The year 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of Watson and Crick’s discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA and the 10th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project (and the generation of the first human genome... |
| 2011_DC_SINH_Reef_Art | 80 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Hyperbolic Chrochet Coral Reef
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
October 16, 2010 – April 24, 2011
Endless variations evolving over time—much like life itself. The hyperbolic crochet coral reef has grown from the discovery that cutting-edge hyperbolic geometry could be found in the intricate structures of coral reefs and... |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Into_Africa | 79 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Into Africa
National Geographic Into Africa: The Photography of Frans Lanting
June 4, 2015 – Summer 2016
Take a personal journey into the wonders of wild Africa as seen through the lens of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting. Over the past three decades his images have created an enduring vision of the... |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Last | 130 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Last American Dinosaurs
The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World
November 25, 2014 – 2018 (TBA)
Explore how we learn about past ecosystems and organisms through the study of their fossils and take a peek "behind the curtain" to see what goes into making a new, large-scale fossil exhibition. See “Hatcher” the... |
| 2023_DC_SINH_Lights | 263 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky
Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky
March 23, 2023 – April 2025
Artificial lights have become such common nighttime fixtures that we take them for granted. But what do brighter nights mean for people and wildlife? The effects of light pollution go beyond our diminishing view of the stars, but the... |
| 2017_DC_SINH_Narwhal | 109 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend
August 3, 2017 – 2019 TBD
Narwhals are among the most fascinating and elusive animals on the planet, and have captured the imaginations of humans for centuries. Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend dives deeply into narwhal biology, behavior, and cultural history,... |
| 2022_DC_SINH_Nature_Book | 29 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Nature of the Book
Nature of the Book
November 11, 2022 – March 17, 2024
Nature of the Book explores books of the hand-press era (from the use of moveable type in Europe in about 1450 to the rise of mechanization in the 19th century) through the myriad natural materials—animal, vegetable, and mineral—that went into... |
| 2017_DC_SINH_Wonder | 194 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Objects of Wonder
Objects of Wonder
Explore the breadth, scope and splendor of the world’s most extensive natural history research collection—more than 145 million artifacts and specimens. The exhibition examines how scientists use Smithsonian collections to enlighten and illuminate our understanding of nature and human... |
| 2014_DC_SINH_Billions | 46 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Once There Were Billions: Vanished Birds of North America
Once There Were Billions: Vanished Birds of North America
June 24, 2014 – January 3, 2016 (new closing date)
An amazing diversity of birds—some in breathtaking abundance—once inhabited the vast forests and plains of North America. But starting around 1600, species began to disappear, as humans altered... |
| 2018_DC_SINH_Outbreak | 149 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
May 18, 2018 – 2021
Our world is more interconnected than ever before—by global travel and trade, by technology, and even by our viruses.
When people move into or change an environment, pathogens—microbes that cause illness—can “jump” from wildlife to humans... |
| 2021_DC_SINH_Outbreak | 61 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
May 18, 2018 – 2021
Our world is more interconnected than ever before—by global travel and trade, by technology, and even by our viruses.
When people move into or change an environment, pathogens—microbes that cause illness—can “jump” from wildlife to humans... |
| 2022_DC_SINH_Outbreak2 | 70 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World (2nd Iteration)
Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World
November 3, 2022 – Indefinitely
Join epidemiologists, veterinarians, public health works, and citizens across the globe as they work together to identify viruses in animals and humans and contain infectious disease outbreaks. |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Primordial | 43 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed
Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed
July 2, 2015 – April 2017, TBA
Photographer Feodor Pitcairn and poet Ari Trausti Guðmundsson reveal a land of fire, ice, hardy life, and natural beauty. Experience the remote beauty of Iceland, a land sculpted by the elements and forged by active geologic... |
| 2011_DC_SINH_Race | 63 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Race: Are We So Different?
Race: Are We So Different?
June 18, 2011 – January 8, 2012
This traveling exhibition looks at race and racism in the United States through biological, cultural, and historical points of view and reveals the profound effects of race and racism on everyone's life. It explores the history of the idea of... |
| 2018_DC_SINH_Sea_Monsters | 88 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Sea Monsters Unearthed, Life in Angola's Ancient Seas
Sea Monsters Unearthed, Life in Angola's Ancient Seas
November 9, 2018 – 2020
Stunning fossils from Angola reveal an ancient ocean ecosystem where giant reptiles ruled the waves. After the South Atlantic Ocean basin formed 120 million years ago, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and sea turtles thrived along... |
| 2012_DC_SINH_Titanoboa | 11 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Titanoboa: Monster Snake
Titanoboa: Monster Snake
March 30, 2012 – January 6, 2013
From deep underground in a Colombian coal mine, in a layer dating to 65 million years ago, scientists have uncovered remains of the largest snake in the world, Titanoboa cerrejonensis. Measuring 48 feet long and weighing in at 2,500 pounds,... |
| 2016_DC_SINH_Turtle_Ocean | 17 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Turtle Ocean
Turtle Ocean
June 8, 2016 – Closing TBD
An art installation by Angela Haseltine Pozzi of the Washed Ashore Project composed entirely of marine debris, Turtle Ocean depicts an entangled Hawksbill turtle swimming in an environment of water bottle sea jellies and beached flip flop anemones along with... |
| 2021_DC_SINH_Unsettled | 67 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Unsettled Nature: Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans
Unsettled Nature: Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans
June 18, 2021 – TBA
Unsettled Nature offers visitors the opportunity to explore the unparalleled, ubiquitous and still-growing mark that humanity is making on the world through 16 works of art, asking visitors to consider how they are shaping the... |
| 2014_DC_SINH_Walk | 11 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Walk Among Dinosaurs! Augmented Reality Experience
Walk Among Dinosaurs! Augmented Reality Experience
May 21, 2014 – September 2, 2014
Walk with Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Troodon of the Late Cretaceous, through the use of augmented reality and motion tracking. Visitors see themselves on a large LED video wall allowing them to interact with a... |
| 2014_DC_SINH_Wilderness | 71 | DC -- Natl Museum of Natural History -- Exhibit: Wilderness Forever
Wilderness Forever: 50 Years of Protecting America's Wild Places
September 3, 2014 – Through summer 2015
This juried photography exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act, one of our nation's most successful pieces of conservation legislation, and illustrates the... |
| 2004_DC_SINH_Orchids | 9 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- Orchid Express @ Natural History Museum
The Orchid Express
December 4, 2004 – May 1, 2005
Until recently, orchids have been considered finicky, difficult, and prohibitively expensive; but with the new technologies, they have become ubiquitous, appearing in movies and TV shows, hotel lobbies and information desks, as well as windowsills and... |
| 2007_DC_SINH_Orchids | 18 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- Orchid Show @ Natural History Museum |
| 2013_DC_SINH_Orchids | 62 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- Orchids of Latin America @ Natural History Museum
Orchids of Latin America
January 26, 2013 - April 21, 2013
Do you want to stroll through a tropical rain forest on a cold winter's day? Visit this year’s orchid exhibition to explore the rich crossroads where orchid botany, horticulture, and Latin American cultures meet. Learn about the importance of... |
| 2009_DC_SINH_Orchids | 69 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- Orchids Through Darwin's Eyes @ Natural History Museum
Orchids Through Darwin's Eyes:
Forming one of the largest families of flowering plants, orchids had adapted to live in almost every type of environment around the world. Orchids helped Charles Darwin (1809-1882) formulate his theories of natural selection and evolution. Since then, they have starred in... |
| 2011_DC_SINH_Orchids | 78 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- Orchids: A View From The East @ Natural History Museum
Orchids: A View From The East: January 29 - April 24, 2011:
Orchids have been a part of Chinese culture for many centuries, permeating Chinese history, legends, literature, and art. Since ancient times, orchids have been celebrated in China for their beauty and fragrance, and appreciated as symbols of... |
| 2015_DC_SINH_Orchids | 77 | DC -- Smithsonian Gardens & USBG -- Orchids: Interlocking Science and Beauty @ Natural History Museum
Orchids: Interlocking Science and Beauty
January 24, 2015 – April 26, 2015
Explore the rich crossroads where orchid botany, horticulture, and technology connect. Featuring orchids from the Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection and the United States Botanic Garden Orchid Collection, the exhibit looks... |