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The Napoleon Diamond Necklace on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The Napoleon Diamond Necklace is a diamond necklace commissioned by Napoleon I of France c. 1811–1812 from the Parisian jeweler Marie-Étienne Nitot. It is now in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year.
The Maharaja of Indore Necklace on display at the Smithsonian Institution. The Maharaja of Indore Necklace is a diamond and emerald-studded necklace.As of 2008, it is on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., United States.
The Iowa State Fair exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., coincides with the nation's 250th anniversary.
The Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as "The Castle") was completed in 1855 to house an art gallery, a library, a chemical laboratory, lecture halls, museum galleries, and offices. [3] During this time the Smithsonian was a learning institution concerned mainly with enhancing science and less interested in being a museum.
The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest (after The Castle) of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Initially named the National Museum, it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections. [3]
The Lion of Merelani is a tsavorite gemstone from Tanzania that is in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The gemstone weighs 116.76 carats, has 177 facets, and is an intense green color.
The earrings have been on display in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History for several decades. They were purchased from Eleanor Post Hutton in 1964, alongside their original settings. Hutton had inherited them from her mother, Marjorie Merriweather Post.
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