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Website. naturalhistory.si.edu. 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.
1 - National Museum of African American History and Culture. 2 - National Museum of American History. 3 - National Museum of Natural History. 4 - Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) 5 - Freer Gallery of Art. 6 - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. 7 - National Museum of African Art. 8 - Arts and Industries Building.
The National Museum of Natural History opened in June 1911 to similarly accommodate the Smithsonian's United States National Museum, which had previously been housed in the Castle and then the Arts and Industries Building. [37] This structure was designed by the D.C. architectural firm of Hornblower & Marshall. [38]
Museum of Science and Industry: Chicago: 1933 Science and technology: 37,000 m 2 (400,000 sq ft) [12] more than 35,000 United States: Minneapolis Institute of Art: Minneapolis: 1883 Art 50,600 m 2 (545,000 sq ft) [13] 32,000 m 2 (340,000 sq ft) [14] More than 100,000 [15] United States: National Museum of Natural History: Washington, D.C. 1910 ...
January 12, 1965 [1] View facing northeast, 1864. The Smithsonian Institution Building, more commonly known as the Smithsonian Castle or simply The Castle, is a building on the National Mall housing the Smithsonian Institution 's administrative offices and information center. Built as the first Smithsonian museum building, it is constructed of ...
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum. There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia. The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1812. [1]
The Museum of the American Indian considered options of merging with the Museum of Natural History, accepting a large donation from Ross Perot to be housed in a new museum building to be built in Dallas, or moving to the U.S. Customs House. The Heye Trust included a restriction requiring the collection to be displayed in New York City, and ...
On October 4, 1997, the auction began at US$500,000; less than ten minutes later, the Field Museum had purchased the remains with the highest bid of US$7.6 million, which eclipsed bids made on behalf of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The final cost was US$8,362,500.