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  2. List of Smithsonian museums - Wikipedia

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    Arts and Industries Building: Special event venue Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1881 [10] Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Design history New York City Museum Mile: 1897 [11] Freer Gallery of Art (affiliated with the Sackler Gallery) Asian art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1923 [9] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ...

  3. National Building Museum - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. March 24, 1969. Designated NHL. February 4, 1985. The National Building Museum is a museum of architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning in Northwest Washington, D.C., U.S. It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, and is a private non-profit institution. Located at 401 F Street NW, it is adjacent to ...

  4. Smithsonian Institution - Wikipedia

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    The first new museum building to open since the National Museum of History and Technology was the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which opened in 1974. [49] The National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian's largest in terms of floor space, opened in June 1976. [50]

  5. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum - Wikipedia

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New York City, along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile.It is one of 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, along with the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of ...

  6. National Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia

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    National Museum of Natural History. 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. With 4.4 million visitors in 2023, it was the second most-visited museum in ...

  7. Arts and Industries Building - Wikipedia

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    November 8, 1964. 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]

  8. National Museum of the American Indian - Wikipedia

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    www.americanindian.si.edu. Interior of the museum, 2015. The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum in the United States devoted to the culture of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution group of museums and research centers. [2] The museum has three facilities.

  9. Smithsonian Institution Building - Wikipedia

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    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 ...